Root file system mounted read only

[Janina Sajka]

What if you go into single user and remount rw? Does that work? Does it
then still come back ro on the next usual boot level?

Doug Lawlor writes:
> Hello all, after a long laps in time I am rebuilding my linux box and am
> having a problem with my root file system being mounted read only instead of
> being mounted read/write. I have been doing some looking and e2fsck -p tells
> me the file system is clean when I scan it using the system rescue cd from
> www.sysresccd.org. I have been noticing that devpts is being mounted
> although it is disabled in the kernel which by the way is 2.6.11. I am truly
> at a loss here on what to do about this. I have ran into a similar problem
> in the past and am not sure how I fixed it. The distribution is gentoo and
> is set up to use udev. 
> The file system is ext3 and is on partition /dev/hda3. I am using lvm for
> /usr, /var, /home, /tmp and /opt. 
> I know this is all kind of sketchy at 4:30 in the morning so any help would
> be well appreciated. 
> Glad to be back on the list again.  
> 
> Doug
> 
> Doug Lawlor, 
> Email: dlawlor at warp.nfld.net
> Skype: dlawlor1971 
> 
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