Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > martin f krafft, le Tue 03 Apr 2007 10:28:24 +0200, a écrit : >> And the other question of course is why the kernel decided it had >> any business doing recovery on an fs that was marked for ro mount. > > Because it always do so, see linux/fs/ext3/super.c:ext3_load_journal(): > even if the mount is read-only, the journal is recovered. If (but only > if) the device itself is read-only, then nothing is written back to the > disk. Ext3 clearly lacks xfs' norecovery mount option.
There's any easy way to put the device in read-only mode? os-prober ought do that before the probing. -- O T A V I O S A L V A D O R --------------------------------------------- E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br --------------------------------------------- "Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house."