On Tuesday 27 September 2005 21:24, Uwe Thiem wrote: > 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.
Or from the running read-only system: # mount -t reiserfs -o remount,rw /dev/xdx# / The type and/or block device may not even be necessary. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
