Well —
I shot myself in the foot the other day, on my Ubuntu 8.10 System. I made a change to fstab (the Linux file structure table) — but didn’t do it correctly……
When done editing, I did:
I did a sudo mount -a -o remount
and it re-mounted / (root directory) as read only…..since fstab was hosed…
Uh oh…….
Then I made the fatal mistake of re-booting.
I just dug the whole deeper.
After a day and half of schlepping I figured out, all I needed to do (in recovery mode as root) was:
mount -o remount rw /
then it was easy to fix.
I also discovered you can’t access devices by /dev/media….
So when I used the partition name for my backup medium /dev/sdb2 things worked! 3 min fix, day and half to figure out!
DOH!
Wayno
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