[Gllug] Sarge DVD et alia

[Richard Cohen]

On Tue, 18 May 2004, john gennard wrote:

[snip Debian question]
> As an aside, I'm also trying to run 'fsck' on an installation of Gentoo
> that I cannot get into. Can some kind soul say how I can temporarily
> change 'rw' mounting to 'ro' so that 'fsck will run.

Assuming you can actually boot the machine, you can easily remount the
filesystem read-only by doing, as root, "mount -o remount,ro $MOUNT_POINT"

> I'd appreciated assistance.                   John.

Cheers
Richard
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