From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nickyt44@optonline.net Subject: After `quotacheck` ReiserFS Root Filesystem Won't Mount Read-Write Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:12:29 -0400 Message-ID: <22c16c22abfc.22abfc22c16c@optonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-language: en Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hi All, I hope someone can help me to fix my broken system. I'm using Libranet 2.8.1 (debian-based) with kernel 2.4.26. It's a dual-boot (grub bootloader) with Win XP. I'm pretty sure I know what happened and why, I just don't know how to resolve it. I installed quotacheck, after googling and reading a popular sys admin book, on my system. It never worked. I started doing additional research on why it wasn't working and after a couple of days, my system refused to boot. During the boot sequence it complained about `reiserfs_getopt: unknown option "usrquota"`. Of course, I'd edited my /etc/fstab directory to explicitly include that option as follows: # /dev/hde2 / reiserfs defaults,usrquota 0 1 Now that the `usrquota` option is choking my system, I want to edit it out...but I can't because the root (/) filesystem will only mount read-only. Which brings me to the crux of the matter: if I can't re-edit the /etc/fstab file to eliminate the offending option, and I can't force reiserfs to mount properly as a read-write root filesystem, how do I recover my system? I've been googling for the last 2 weeks and have found a variety of combinations of the `mount` command, none of them works. I've tried `mount / -o remount,rw` `mount -o remount,rw /dev/hde2` `mount /dev/hde2 -t reiserfs remount,rw` and `mount -n -o remount,rw /`...all to no avail. I invariably get the following message: `reiserfs_getopt: unknown option "usrquota" mount: / not mounted already or bad option`. I've tried using a knoppix live cd to edit the /etc/fstab directory, but the /etc/fstab shown when I cd to /etc/fstab is one created by knoppix and not the /etc/fstab on my root /dev/hde2. How do I force reiserfs to mount read-write in order to edit the /etc/fstab file? Although I have a recent backup of my Libranet system, I'm hoping not to do a reinstall. TIA. Nick