Ubuntu
friendly-recovery package

  1. Bug #575469
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 575469

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Dave Vasilevsky (djvasi) wrote : Re: recovery mode mounts filesystems read-write rather than read-only

A workaround to boot with the root mounted read-only is to edit the grub command line so it includes "init=/bin/bash". Obviously non-ideal, but it lets me run zerofree at least.