How can I mount a read-only filesystem as read-write?

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Issue

  • One of my partition has been mounted as read-only. How can I make it read-write without rebooting?
  • How can I remount the root filesystem as read-write after it goes read-only?
  • My filesystem went read-only, can I remount without rebooting? / filesystem suddenly became read only, unable to write to files.
# touch file
touch: cannot touch `file': Read-only file system

# cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext3 ro,data=ordered 0 0

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5/6

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