On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 10:04:17PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > > I then was able to amend /etc/fstab for the root directory mount by > fixing the typo. I also removed the "errors=remount-ro" option. > Apparently the Debian installer always adds this option to the fstab > mount line for the root directory, and no one on the list could > enlighten me as to what purpose it serves by being there,
The idea simply is to prevent greater damage, in case a filesystem should start to develop minor inconsistencies, due to hardware slowly beginning to fail, or whatever. In that case, you'd be glad to have some mechanism in place that immediately stops further write accesses, if any such problem is detected -- as mildly broken filesystems tend to get corrupted exponentially, if you just keep writing to them... It probably simply hasn't occurred to the developers that, by treating all types of mount errors the same way, poor admins might get into the somewhat unfortunate situation of locking themselves out, if they accidentally put a wrong option into fstab -- as you have witnessed... I think it would indeed make sense to keep such mere syntax errors from resulting in a read-only mount. Maybe you want to file a wishlist bug. Almut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
