How to make changes in linux maintence mode

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Published on 2010-05-04T13:42:33Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 13:48 UTC
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I notice when Linux boots in maintenance mode the filesystem is read-only.

Is there a way to change this, perhaps remounting as writable?

An example of this being a problem is that I was unable to open vi because there were too many session files....

Not to mention it would be nice to actually fix problems....

What are you meant to be able to do if you can't make any changes to the filesystem? What kind of maintenance can be expected?

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