On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 12:41 -0700, Roger Andersen wrote: [snip] > 1. My root file system format is... well, I have conflicting data. > > a. When I boot, the console says: > root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > b. After I'm up, I see that my /etc/fstab contains: > /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noatime 1 2 > /dev/sda2 / ext3 noatime 0 1 > > c. When I type "mount" I get: > rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) > /dev/root on / type ext2 (rw, noatime)
There seems to be no conflict there, a. states that grub sees the first partition as ext2 which is exactly what b. says. (hd0,1) on the other hand is ext3. Now for c., mount's output is very dependent on whether you actually mounted the procfs or not (read the mount man page, regarding /etc/mtab). [snip] > 5. The root filesystem is normally read/write, and I want to make it > readonly in an attempt to keep it from being corrupted every stinking time I > power cycle the board. I imagine I'd want to make it read/write again from > time to time to do maintenance on the system. [snip] So what's the problem with mounting read/only? Best Regards, -- Ahmed Ammar (b33fc0d3 [at] gentoo.org)
