Modifying fstab file on T7400

[Douglas Kosovic]

Hi Marco,

> I have created a raid disk and now I need to modify the fstab file on 
> RHWS5 x64 on a precision T7400.
> Dell support has problems to help me because they aren't too skilled on 
> Linux, even if I have bought 3 years of business support.  
> Now the system stops during the start-up because it's impossible mount 
> the old disk configuration.
> Entering as root in repair file system I cannot modify the file, all the 
> files and directory are read-only.
> How can I modify and save the read-only file?

Try remounting with read/write (i.e -w mount option), I'm not sure where 
you have it mounted, but it would be something like:

mount -w -o remount /mnt/sysimage
vi /mnt/sysimage/etc/fstab


Normally in repair mode you have options to mount read-only or not.


Doug