[CentOS-virt] LVM Lockout

[Jorick Astrego]

It's really simple:

Boot Centos 5 CD

Start rescue mode by typing

# linux rescue

# sudo -i
# mkdir /mnt/root
# mount -t ext3 /dev/whatever /mnt/root
# nano /mnt/root/etc/fstab


Regards,

Netbulae
Jorick Astrego

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> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:17:28 -0400
> From: "Ben M." <centos at rivint.com>
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> Gack. I added an additional Raid1 pair to my machine just before I 
> planned to bring it over to the office and I did something dumb and 
> locked out.
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> I have the pv's, vg's and lv's cleared. All I need to do is get on root 
> and remove a line from fstab, but I can't get it out of read only mode 
> to save the edit.
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> My root login at "Repair Filesystem" seems unable to make the file 
> writeable. I have done this in past with Knoppix, but can't seem to file 
> the utility to make the write editable (same with CentOS and other live 
> CD's, am downloading newer BackTrack now).
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