On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Adam Thornton wrote:

> If you have a shared volume, linked read-only, to a virtual machine,
> formatted with ext3, then even if you have it specified as ro in
> /etc/fstab, you still get errors at boot, presumably as it tries to do
> something with the journal inode.
>
> If you mount it as ext2 these errors do not appear,
>
> Shouldn't ext3 see that it's being mounted read-only, and not attempt to
> manipulate the journal?

It can be mounted ro for the fsck operation; that's how you check the
root filesystem.

Check that fstab says it's not to be checked.

I guess mounting as ext2 is okay too.

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Cheers
John.

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