Ok, I feel just A LITTLE silly!
In my co-worker's panic, I didn't bother to fully explore the
man page on "mount". If I had, I would have seen the following
example:
" When you boot to single-user mode, the root file system is mounted with
read-only access. If you want to modify a file, you must change the options
on the root file system to read/write. You can do this with the following
command:
# mount -u /
If your /etc/fstab file is corrupted, you can mount the root file system
with the following command:
# mount -u /dev/rz?? /
And that's indeed how I solved the problem. Thanks to the too many to
name who replied (and are still replying!)!! I've repented of my evil
ways and will thoroughly read the man pages before I both you good
folks again.
Cheers,
Cary Talbot
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Cary A. Talbot, Hydraulic Engineer US Army Corps of Engineers
ATTN: CEWES-HH-G Waterways Experiment Station
3909 Halls Ferry Road
Vicksburg, Mississippi 39180
phone:(601)634-4286 fax:(601)634-4208 email:talbot_at_hl.wes.army.mil
Received on Fri Jan 12 1996 - 18:12:06 NZDT