[CLUE-Tech] Poor Man's Ghost /system repair

[David Willson]

If the filesystem is already mounted at a-certain-place, do this:
  mount a-certain-place -o remount,rw
If it ain't yet mounted, then the normal mount command should do it:
  mount /mnt/whatever
If recent versions of Knoppix are mounting RO, then change the last line
to:
  mount /mnt/whatever -o rw

On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 17:46, Joe Linux wrote:
> That's probably what I didn't do. What is the root command to remount
> the files systems RW? Or is there a GUI way to do it?
> 
> Jed S. Baer wrote:
> > On 14 Jun 2003 10:20:28 -0600
> > David Willson <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU> wrote:
> > 
> >   
> > > I think there's been some misunderstanding here.  I have not yet booted
> > > a system with KNOPPIX and not been able to manipulate the files on the
> > > hard drive.  Sometimes I have to do some gyrations to get there, but I
> > > can always get in, except in the case of a hardware failure.
> > > 
> > > Who is Joe Linux, and what's the actual problem?  (Can I do an
> > > anti-alias rant here?)
> > >     
> > 
> > Yeah, whadda people think this is here? Usenet!? ;-)
> > 
> > He did the June 2002 KISS session on IceWM. See
> > http://clue.denver.co.us/presentations.html
> > 
> > But I think this was the original question:
> > 
> >   
> > > > Do you know who to use the Knoppix CD to manage your existing "root" 
> > > > file system.  I would like to do this with a graphical file manager,
> > > > but I can't seem to get it to work.  I have tried <ALT>+<F2> and
> > > > typing in a root pass word, and then  switching back and launching
> > > > kdesu konqueror, but I still can't write to my existing systems "root"
> > > > files.
> > > >       
> > 
> > It sounds like he's running into the standard Knoppix practice of mounting
> > existing filesystems readonly, for safety. The solution then, would be to
> > use the context menu to remount the filesystem read-write. I don't know if
> > this is what Match was talking about when he mentioned the "crippled" root
> > account.
> > 
> > jed
> >   
-- 
David Willson <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU>