[Fedora] something I don't understand
Michael Hix
mike at musl.org
Fri Sep 1 16:44:43 UTC 2006
Pardon my assumption, but this one may be a little tricky for someone
who's native tongue may not be English.
Here's the command you need:
mount -o remount,rw /
- Mike
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> François Patte wrote:
>> I was root, the fstab file has write permission for root, but it was
>> impossible to modify this file....
>>
>> WHY?
>>
> Because the filesystem is mounted read-only when you log in for
> maintenance. You have to remount it 'rw' to be able to make changes
> to it. Read 'mount's man page for the option to remount a partition.
>
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