François Patte wrote: > I was root, the fstab file has write permission for root, but it was > impossible to modify this file.... > > WHY? > Because the filesystem is mounted read-only when you log in for maintenance. You have to remount it 'rw' to be able to make changes to it. Read 'mount's man page for the option to remount a partition.

: Bonjour, : : As I run short of place on my /home partition, I decided to format a new : partition on my HD (some place were left) and call it home2 after : creating it with fdisk. I run : : mke2fs -j -L home2 /dev/hdax : : then added this line in fstab: : : LABEL=/home2 /home2 ext3 defaults 1 2 : : Then I rebooted the machine.... and, as there was a mistake in the : fstab, I was dropped to a repair-partition prompt because fsck.ext3 : didn't know what to do with LABEL "/home2".... : : I thought that there were no problem: I just type the root password and : tried to comment the bad line in the fstab... Impossible: "the file is : write protected" was the only answer I got from vi... : : I was root, the fstab file has write permission for root, but it was : impossible to modify this file.... : : WHY? : : Thank you. : : PS. I recovered with reformating the partition with the right syntax. The behaviour is probably due to the parition being mounted "read-only". >From the commandline, issue `mount' and look at the last item on the line. I'm guessing it says "(ro)". You can change the write mode of the partition by issuing mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda5 assuming /home is on hda5. Now issue `mount' again and you will see that "(ro)" has changed to "(rw)". Dean

Bonjour, As I run short of place on my /home partition, I decided to format a new partition on my HD (some place were left) and call it home2 after creating it with fdisk. I run mke2fs -j -L home2 /dev/hdax then added this line in fstab: LABEL=/home2 /home2 ext3 defaults 1 2

On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:00:49 -0500 Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net&gt; wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 22:00 +0530, François Patte wrote: > > Bonjour, > > > > As I run short of place on my /home partition, I decided to format a new > > partition on my HD (some place were left) and call it home2 after > > creating it with fdisk. I run > > > > mke2fs -j -L home2 /dev/hdax > > > > then added this line in fstab: > > > > LABEL=/home2 /home2 ext3 defaults 1 2 > > Ignoring the modifying the fstab for a minute. Others have addressed > this. The label of a disk can be set or modified by tunefs command. I think you meant the tune2fs command

For the OP: as root do tune2fs -L <label-name> <device> eg: tune2fs -L /home /dev/hde1 Myles -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list