Root file system mounted read only

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Fri Aug 5 10:56:15 EDT 2005


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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