Cannot edit fstab in recovery mode. Filesystem is read only

penguinbody · 02-05-2017, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by gjinchrist

This just helped me after I wiped out a partition and rebooted while studying for the rhcsa. Thanks!

I did the same thing except practicing on a user quota exercise in my LPI study guide. Can you never learn this reading all day.

shemim@gmail.com · 11-06-2017, 12:55 AM

Mount the root partition or logical volume to /mnt
# mount /dev/<device name> /mnt
After the root file system and virtual file systems are mounted run this command to chroot in:
# chroot /mnt

SoulStarver · 06-05-2018, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by solarisguy

I know this thread is old, but I thought I would offer a simpler solution:

mount -o remount,rw /

WOW! This worked like a charm!

Ty bro! You saved my day

benjdewantara · 07-30-2018, 05:48 AM

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Originally Posted by solarisguy

I know this thread is old, but I thought I would offer a simpler solution:

mount -o remount,rw /

If this doesn't work, I would suggest adding another option to the command

mount -n -o remount,rw /

That does the trick for me

JHPArizona · 08-14-2018, 11:53 PM

Thanks! I have been using Linux on home systems since 2002 or 2003. In the very early days had boot issues where I needed to fix fstab to get booting again. However it has been YEARS since I have had to do this and this thread got me going again!