From: Stephen Tweedie (sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk)
Date: 05/06/93


From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie)
Subject: Re: [e2]fsck'ing the / partition in 0.99pl9 during bootup
Date: 6 May 1993 13:16:43 GMT

On 3 May 93 19:33:59 GMT, stern@amath.washington.edu (L.G. "Ted" Stern) said:

> Hi all: Just a short question. With the new patchlevel release of
> the kernel, there is a very nice option for mounting the root
> filesystem readonly at first.

Why, thank you. :-)

> Question:
> How does one remount a partition that has been mounted
> readonly as a read/write partition? And what is the correct
> file to put the [e2]fsck in? /etc/rc? Or does /etc/init have
> to be modified somehow?

You need a version of mount which will do this. It is on the
wishlist. :-) I expect that a new mount will be available pretty
soon, and it will be announced when it is.

Cheers,
 Stephen Tweedie.