I was referring to the partition that the kernel is on. The kernel can't be
read without its partition being mounted in some kind of way. As Tom
suggested, I think the partition is mounted read-only at first and then
mounted read-write after the kernel is loaded and fscks (if any) are done.
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:51, etharp wrote:
> ehh,,, the kernel is read into memory, then the disk unmounted?
>
> On Wednesday 15 August 2001 11:02, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > Good question. You've gotten me wondering about that too. If you wanted
> > to do it manually I would assume that you would have to boot from (or
> > chroot to) another filesystem (like a CD or floppy). How do fscks work on
> > boot? When an fsck is needed at bootup, it is run _before_ the partiton
> > is mounted.
> >
> > This brings up another question. How is the kernel loaded when the
> > filesystem it is on hasn't been mounted yet? I assume that the principle
> > would be the same as with the fsck situation above. This question doesn't
> > only apply to Linux, but to all kernels.
> >
> > Hmmm...
> >
> > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 20:50, Paul wrote:
> > > It was Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:07:56 +1000 when Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > >
> > > One small question then: how would you go about fsck-ing the partition
> > > that has the fsck binary on it? You can't run it when it is not
> > > mounted, and you can't run it when it's mounted.
> > > Would cp-ing the program be the solution?
> > > Paul
> > >
> > > >> The procedure I gave, and for which I believe the question
> > > >> conserned, was to be used during boot when the auto fsck is unable
> > > >> to complete and the sysetm request that a manual fsck be run.
> > > >> If run at this time no partition has has yet been mounted so using
> > > >> an unmount command would be pointless and unnecessary.
> > > >
> > > >Very true. I just thought I should add that disclaimer just in case
> > > > someone wanted to fsck a mounted filesystem :-)
>
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