On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:22:47PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > > Odd. Both of those imply that the kernel found the FS to be broken > > somehow and remounted it read-only to prevent further damage. > > debian always puts errors=remount-ro in the / filesystem mount option > in /etc/fstab. if /var was on / then syslog may not have had a chance > to log that message before it was made readonly.
Mmmmm... yes, this is the case for me... And yes, it probably would be better to have var on a seperate partition for times like these... Incidently, I was wondering the other day if I moved /var /usr and /etc to their own partitions, is there any reason why / needs to get mounted rw at all? -raf
