Re: [Grml] manual grml to hd - read only root fs

T o n g mlist4suntong@yahoo.com wrote:

I did a simple

rsync -aHSx --devices --specials / $new_os_mnt/

instead of grml2hd. All seems fine just that the root fs is still mounted read only.

Do you have an entry for the root file system in its /etc/fstab file? If not, the root file system will never be mounted read/write.

For example

/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 0 1

substituting the correct device for /dev/sda1 and the correct file system type (of necessary) for ext3.

You can also use a volume label or UUID instead of a device name, which is useful if you start moving drives around.