I can't edit /etc/fstab from this Shell

Tue Apr 22 22:10:10 UTC 2008

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 17:15 -0400, James J Catchpole wrote:
> I have had this problem before and it turned out
> to be that even though FSTAB was on a R/W
> File System that VI was also attempting
> to write to the /TMP directory, which is
> not writable, instead of the /mnt/sysimage/tmp
> directory. I don't remember how I got around 
> it.

Neither /tmp nor /root are on writeable filesystems (despite what
'mount' says). The solution is 'mount -oremount ...'.

poc