On 27 September 2005 14:00, James Hiscock wrote: > On 9/27/05, glumtail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This happens offen in my system. > > > > My root filesystem is reiserfs and /home is ext3, when i extract tar > > packages it says it is a readonly filesystem. > > Fix your /etc/fstab - it thinks your root partition is xfs, when it > isn't. You either: a) didn't change it during installation; or b) > overwrote it in a recent update.
Since his root filesystem is read-only, he needs a bit more help I guess because he can't simply use his favourite editor to edit fstab. Well, he can but he can't write the changes to his harddisk. ;-) You boot from a live cd (any actually). If it is a gentoo live cd you mount your root partition under /mnt/gentoo. If it is some other cd you have to find out where to mount. Now you cd to /mnt/gentoo/etc and edit fstab. Write it back and reboot the box without cd. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
