On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:33:30 +0300 Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote: > No, you were right: when / is mounted read-only, even root is unable > to write to /etc/mtab. At any rate, / is remounted read-write soon enough - which, if you're curious, you can also do for yourself like this: mount -o remount,rw /dev/root-device /