From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 11:41:55 +1000 From: CaT To: Stefan Jeglinski Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: 2.6 hoses 2.4 on old-world? Message-ID: <20040821014155.GB1005@zip.com.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 09:04:23PM -0400, Stefan Jeglinski wrote: > But if I try e2fsck /dev/sda6, I get 'couldn't open /dev/null > (read-only file system)' despite what mtab says. I can't seem to > umount anything to try remounting. do an 'ls -l /dev/null'. Does it look something like this? crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2004-08-14 04:37 /dev/null If not then remove it and type mknod /dev/null c 1 3 You'll need to mount the fs rw first though. This should do it: mount -o 'remount,rw' / And don't forget to remount ro when you're done. -- Red herrings strewn hither and yon. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/