something I don't understand

[Michael Hix]

He will not need to remount /home, but remount /. He is in the 
single-user maintenance mode.
/etc/fstab is the file he cannot edit.

- Mike

Dean S. Messing wrote:
> : Bonjour,
> : 
> : As I run short of place on my /home partition, I decided to format a new
> : partition on my HD (some place were left) and call it home2 after
> : creating it with fdisk. I run
> : 
> : mke2fs -j -L home2 /dev/hdax
> : 
> : then added this line in fstab:
> : 
> : LABEL=/home2 /home2 ext3 defaults 1 2
> : 
> : Then I rebooted the machine.... and, as there was a mistake in the
> : fstab, I was dropped to a repair-partition prompt because fsck.ext3
> : didn't know what to do with LABEL "/home2"....
> : 
> : I thought that there were no problem: I just type the root password and
> : tried to comment the bad line in the fstab... Impossible: "the file is
> : write protected" was the only answer I got from vi...
> : 
> : I was root, the fstab file has write permission for root, but it was
> : impossible to modify this file....
> : 
> : WHY?
> : 
> : Thank you.
> : 
> : PS. I recovered with reformating the partition with the right syntax.
>
> The behaviour is probably due to the parition being mounted "read-only".
>
> >From the commandline, issue `mount' and look at the last item on the
> line.  I'm guessing it says "(ro)".  You can change the write mode of
> the partition by issuing
>
>    mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda5
>
> assuming /home is on hda5.
>
> Now issue `mount' again and you will see that "(ro)" 
> has changed to "(rw)".
>
> Dean
>
>