{"id":1113,"date":"2015-04-16T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2022-10-30T15:19:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T14:19:56","slug":"linux-beginners-trick-mount-root-shell-to-read-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/en\/2015\/04\/16\/linux-beginners-trick-mount-root-shell-to-read-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux beginners trick: mount root shell to read-write"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If your Linux (Mint) fails to boot because you broke the \/etc\/fstab, for example, you&#8217;ll end up with a ready only root shell. The trick is to mount the root partition to as read-write without actually unmounting it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre><code class=\"language-bash\"># mount -o remount,rw \/<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>After doing that, you wil be able to edit \/etc\/fstab, correct the error, and reboot normally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Found on: <a title=\"How to fix Linux boot problems\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tuxradar.com\/content\/how-fix-linux-boot-problems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to fix Linux boot problems<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your Linux (Mint) fails to boot because you broke the \/etc\/fstab, for example, you&#8217;ll end up with a ready only root shell. The trick is to mount the root partition to as read-write without actually unmounting it: # mount -o remount,rw \/ After doing that, you wil be able to edit \/etc\/fstab, correct the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/en\/2015\/04\/16\/linux-beginners-trick-mount-root-shell-to-read-write\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Linux beginners trick: mount root shell to read-write&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[53,54],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-linux-mint","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}