Quoting Tom Gundersen (2012-01-26 13:12:16) >On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Vic Demuzere <v...@demuzere.be> wrote: >> On 26 January 2012 12:43, Philipp Überbacher <hollun...@lavabit.com> wrote: >>> Anyway, what's the explanation for this behavior? Is / only mounted (and >>> remounted) ro by default? I guess it's the 'defaults' entry, which >>> includes rw, that leads to the remount as rw. Is it normal that it is >>> necessary? >> >> This has changed recently (in the filesystem package, if I remember >> correctly). The / partition used to be mounted rw automatically, now >> it uses the fstab entry as that allows you to mount it ro if you want. > >The change was in 'initscripts'. The default is to remount rw, but you >need to have an entry for '/' in fstab. > >-t
Thanks Vic and Tom, I wasn't aware of this change. Regards, Philipp
