Jacob Burkamper: > The mount -o remount,ro call does indeed not succeed.
OK, then let's proceed next step. - run "lsof" after "rsync" find the file which makes your /ro busy. - after "remount,rw" run "fgrep -w /ro /proc/mounts" confirm that all /ro entries are remounted as RW. - split the updating files into several groups. for example, rsync updating/etc /ro rsync updating/lib /ro rsync updating/usr /ro ::: and after for each rsync, try "remount,ro". repeating this step with narrowing down the updating file, we can find the file which makes your /ro busy. J. R. Okajima ------------------------------------------------------------------------------