On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 06:20:13PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > The other problem is that scripts like os-prober that use linux > filesystem code for probing filesystems destroy your data. > > Linux cannot mount journalled filesystems readonly. It always modifies > them. The extent of the modifications and the impact may vary > depending on the state of the filesystem (clean/mounted) and the way > you are going to use it in the future (resume the system/fresh boot) > but until Linux people implement readonly filesystem support any Linux > based os-probers cannot be recommended.
I'm pretty sure this is fixable with blockdev --setro. The main reason we haven't got round to doing this in os-prober yet is that we need to get round to adding blockdev to busybox (which is important for os-prober's original purpose, the Debian installer). -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
