Hardware problem

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> Hi all
>
>   Got a machine hard drive problem. This machine has Suse pro 9.0 loaded. On the
> / I have /dev/hda3 formated with reiserfs, the drive is a 6 gig IDE. The boot
> system drops into maintence mode, I assume that this is run level 2 or 3, but the
> / is mounted as read only. I would like to run fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-tree
> /dev/hda3. The problem here it is mounted, I need to remount as rw. I have tried
> the following: mount -o rw /dev/hda3 /, but there is no joy here. I must have
> neglected something or confused. Any help to educate mewould be appreciated.

What you most likely want is:
mount -o remount,ro /

Unless resierFS does things compeltely opposite of all other filesystems,
running a fsck on a mounted, writable filesystem will be a disaster.

>   2nd question, if the first is fixed, I have a second drive a scsi 4.3g formated
> as vfat for wine work. In fstab the system has it as /dev/system/windows not as
> sdax. If I try and use sda1 I get errors, is there something wrong with this,
> also the drive has a grp of root & own as root and will noteven allow root to
> change this. I will post the fstab if it will help or any other info. This
> machine is 350 Mhz Intel cpu.

vfat has no understanding of ownership (thank you M$).  Everything is
automatically owned by the only user in the OS.

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