On Monday 09 July 2001 07:48, David A. Bandel wrote:
> When you ran mount -n -o remount,ro /, the -n said "no write to
> /etc/mtab" so the value (rw) remained unchanged. Problem is, the write
> to mtab takes place _after_ the filesystem is remounted (on success).
> But at that point, the filesystem is ro, so you can't change mtab to
> show that the filesystem is ro.
>
> Did that make sense/answer the question?
Nice one, thank you.
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