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. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
