From: stern@amath.washington.edu (L.G. "Ted" Stern) Subject: Re: [e2]fsck'ing the / partition in 0.99pl9 during bootup Date: 6 May 1993 18:41:25 GMT
In article <SCT.93May6131643@malts.dcs.ed.ac.uk>, sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) writes:
|> 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.
|> ---
|> Stephen Tweedie <sct@uk.ac.ed.dcs> (Internet: <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>)
|> Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
In response to my posting, I have received correspondence from someone who states
that the /etc/rc file that comes with the SLS 1.02 installation has the options
to do the [e2]fsck and the remounting of the partition read-write already in it,
just commented out with # signs. This would indicate that there is a fixed
version of 'mount' in the new SLS, which I have not verified myself, though I
intend to do it soon. It would be nice to be notified of such
developments when they occur, however! I am sure Stephen would concur.
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