Not having a rescue disk handy (working in a remote location for the next
week), I almost was very stuck -- having added data=writeback to my mount
options of /, when data=writeback caused the mount boot scripts to fail
with:
EXT3-fs: cannot change data mode on remount
So / was mounted ro, and it wouldn't allow me to mount with mount -o
remount,rw because it kept on trying to parse the /etc/fstab file I was
attempting to change and would add the data=writeback option which caused
it to fail. But of course, being ro, I couldn't then modify
/etc/fstab. Chicken and egg.
It would have been a lot easier if I could have just told mount to ignore
/etc/fstab. Eventually, I thought of bind mounting some random directory
over the top of /etc temporarily, so that it appeared there was no
/etc/fstab file at all. That was sufficient to be able to remount / with
the correct options and rw, and was then able to unbind that random
directory and modify /etc/fstab.
Incidentally, I did try to do the obvious solution of saying:
mount -o remount,rw,data=ordered /
(to override /etc/fstab's settings)
but unless I made a tyop, this didn't
work. Which would also be a bug, but since I didn't log enough
information, I shan't report it.
--
TimC
"It was eleven more than necessary."
-- Jacques Anquetil, after winning a cycling race by twelve seconds
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