Repairing fstab (read only /)
- By Preneesh AV --
- 09-Mar-2019 --
- 118 Comments
That was very easy to correct fstab
from readonly mode. We must mount /
in read-write mode.
If /etc/fstab
is correct, you can simply type:
mount -n -o remount /
But if /etc/fstab
is wrong (as it was in my case), you must give the device name and possibly the type, too: e.g.
mount -n -o remount -t extX /dev/hdaX /
Where extX
is your filesystem type and /dev/hdaX
-- is partition you use for your root mount point.
mount -n -o remount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /