How to mount a partition as root and make it world read-write?

[Paul Howarth]

VJ wrote:
> Yes I am 100% sure that it is ext2 (i re-created it just now after reading
> your mail). The / is reiserfs.

The root filesystem type shouldn't matter.

Try this:

mount /dev/hdh3 /t
chown root:root /t
chmod 1777 /t

Now, what's the output from the following commands:

mount
ls -l / /t
touch /t/jim
su rpm -c "touch /t/fred"
ls -l /t

Paul.