/etc readonly

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 11:47 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote:
> 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 /

Being a lazy guy, I use

# mount -o remount,rw /

Regs
  Siggy
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