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[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 27 December 2001 14.18, David wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 13:08:10 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
> >Is this on the win partition you're getting that error? If a partition is
> >mounted readonly you can remount it read/write with
> >
> >mount -o remount,rw /mountpoint
>
> I am not getting anywhere here :)
> The above gives me the response
> mount: can't find /mountpoint in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

Well, I meant for "mountpoint" to be replaced by whatever you use in 
practice. If you're at the "repair filesystem" prompt you should use

mount -o remount,rw /

since / is the mount point of the root file system here.

regards
Anders