On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:03:26AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 07:36:34PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > When you mount the filesystem, are all the standard options active or > > do you mount it noatime? I don't know if it matters. > > I'm mounting it with relatime. Mount says: > > /usr type xfs (rw,relatime,barrier,logbufs=8) > > I'm not sure why that should matter, though. > > > What happens if you do the remounting pre/post manually instead? > > $ sudo mount -o remount,ro /usr > mount: /usr is busy > > Since I can't do it manually, I'm not surprised it can't be done by apt, > but some of the questions people are asking make me wonder if it's an > interaction between XFS and apt, or if it's a problem with ext3 as well. > I have no way to test it; maybe someone else can chime in on that. > > > I used to have /usr and /boot mounted ro routinely in Sarge with no > > problem. > > Me, too, which is why this is annoying me tremendously.
I just su - , and ran: # mount -o,ro,remount /usr then ran # mount and saw that /usr was mounted ro, then ran # mount -o,rw,remount /usr and had it remounted rw, no problem. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]