Remount /home rw when it's errored to ro

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2022-07-18 at 20:18 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> > >My /home keeps bouncing into ro mode - how do I reset it to rw?
> > 
> > In general:
> > 
> > sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/whatever /home
> > 
> I thought that might be it, too, but:
> 
> 20:16 [admar at marbase:~] $ sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/sdb1 /home
> mount: /home: cannot remount /dev/sdb1 read-write, is write-
> protected.
> 

In that filesystem's entry in fstab, if this is an extX filesystem, you
probably have something like "errors=remount-ro".

If you really want to, you can change it to "errors=continue". You may
need to reboot; or try unmounting the RO filesystem, then "mount -a".

Use with care.

Regards, K.

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