> OK, so I go to edit /etc/fstab. Whoops. It is read-only too! OK, > so I go to unmount / and mount rw. Except... yes, / cannot be > unmounted because it is busy! OK, so I go to use a livecd to > edit fstab to remove this fscking ro thing
A quick tip for you, since this bit you: you don't want to umount /. That will do things like remove your access to the very program you need to remount it rw: mount. So, that bit actually saved you. The option you needed was: # mount -o remount,rw / This will remount it rw in place. I have had to employ it in quite a few similar "misbehaving drive" situations. -- Temporary /tmp and /var/tmp https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18661 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs