[SOLVED] Readonly root partition

[sathvikv]

Hi,
I am running Cent OS 5.2 on a dedicated server.

I was trying to install quotas: yum install quotas

And then I modified /etc/fstab

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquot 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP-hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0


Instead of typing (,usrquota,grpquota) i have typed (,usrquota,grpquot) and this has lead to some error and the root is read-only now. I am not able to edit it and save it even with using :!w from vi editor

Before my /etc/mtab was

/dev/hda3 / ext3 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0

But now it is automatically changed to

/dev/hda3 / ext3 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0

I am also not able to change it to previous state as the entire partition is read-only. Could some one guide me how to solve this issue.

Thanks a lot

[sathvikv]

Hi,
I was able to solve it myself.

I remounted the root partition in rw mode and changed the mtab file. Now everything is good.

mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda2


Thank you