You can remount the root partition for RW once you booted into single user mode: mount -o remount,rw /dev/xxx Avi A Nourai wrote:
Could someone explain to me the philosophy of bootidng directly into single user mode. I have tried this by entering 'linux single ' at the lilo prompt and setting initdefault to S in inittab, both resulting in the system being booted into runlevel S.
From what I've heard, using 'linux single' to do this can be used to fix critical problems etc. However it seems that runlevel S only mounts the root file system, and even this is only read only. So how can 'linux single' be so helpful? Im not saying its not helpful, I can for one make a bootdisk that mounts the root fs reaw-write using rdev.
Thanks.
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