On Monday 17 December 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> I got it to mount from the f8 side and copied over about 30GB of stuff, >> but thought I'd add it to fstab. On the reboot it of course upchucked all >> over itself and dropped me to a shell to fix it. Unforch, I cannot find a >> way to fix it because its mounted read-only EVEN if I changed the kernel >> lines argument from ro to rw. >> >> So how DO I get write perms to the filesystem so I can fix /etc/fstab? > >mount -o rw,remount <mount point> > >or > >mount -w -o remount <mount point> > >Mikkel Thanks Mikkel, I'd forgotten the -o bit. :( At 73, CRS has set in. That and 2 or 3 years since I last used it. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) No, his mind is not for rent To any god or government. Always hopeful, yet discontent, He knows changes aren't permanent - But change is.