On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, David B. wrote: > Hi, hate to bother. I'm working in 3.8 and I've run across something new > and can't figure out. For some reason, on this box a drive isn't > mounting, and the boot blows and asks for shell. so, I go to shell and > I've tried to edit the fstab file to remark out the mountpoint that's > gone bad. First off, VI isn't there, so I've tried ,s/old/new/g using > ed, but then it says that it's a read only file, and when I try to > whoami, or to su, it doesn't see the programs. So, all I need to do is to > be able to edit fstab and remark out the bad mount point and I can take > it from there. thanks > Its free.
Remount / with write access. I believe that would be: # mount -u -w / No need for "su", you're already root. Dave -- Resistance is futile. You've already been assimilated.