Re: [REDHAT] Re: ReadOnly HD Partitions

2002-01-16 Thread David Kramer
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Ben Logan wrote: > AFAIK, read-only means that for the kernel too. For example, when a > root filesystem is mounted read-only (on bootup), the kernel will yell > at you if it doesn't get remounted rw (if there are files on that > partition that have to be updated at boot). >

Re: ReadOnly HD Partitions

2002-01-16 Thread Ben Logan
AFAIK, read-only means that for the kernel too. For example, when a root filesystem is mounted read-only (on bootup), the kernel will yell at you if it doesn't get remounted rw (if there are files on that partition that have to be updated at boot). But I'm not an expert in this area...or any rea

ReadOnly HD Partitions

2002-01-16 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi all, How read-only is a read-only partition. If I put a vfat partition in the /etc/fstab with the 'ro' option then users won't be able to write to the disk right? My question is, will the kernel write to it? The reason being that we've just paid a small fortune to have a data recovery fi