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~Middle

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Registered: 2011-02-17

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[Solved] First Installtion: File system is read only?

I have finally installed Arch successfully, but now I can't edit, move, copy or delete files, as i get the error: Read-only file system.

Now i know what this means, but how can i over come it?

I would really rather not do a clean install, as i have only just got this one 'working'.

Might connecting to the net and updating help?

Thanks a lot for your time!

Last edited by ~Middle (2011-02-18 21:12:16)

lifeafter2am

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Re: [Solved] First Installtion: File system is read only?

Please search; there are literally a ton of topics on this very problem.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39256

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~Middle

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Re: [Solved] First Installtion: File system is read only?

I did search and tried all of the potential fixes, but nothing has appeared to work.

I ran dmesg and found that it might be caused by having 'notail' in my options in my fstab file.

How can i edit this file to remove it, if the drive is read only?

fsckd

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Registered: 2009-06-15

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Re: [Solved] First Installtion: File system is read only?

i suppose remount as rw

you are using reiserfs, right?

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lifeafter2am

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Re: [Solved] First Installtion: File system is read only?

I did search and tried all of the potential fixes, but nothing has appeared to work.

I ran dmesg and found that it might be caused by having 'notail' in my options in my fstab file.

How can i edit this file to remove it, if the drive is read only?

Boot into the liveUSB/CD, mount your root drive, edit file.

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~Middle

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Re: [Solved] First Installtion: File system is read only?

This fixed, it.

For future reference, if you put the option 'notail' in fstab you get this error...

To remove it boot from a live disk

mount /dev/sdaX /mnt
nano /mnt/etc/fstab

Hope this helps people in the future!