Fw: root partition (reiserfs) mounting read-only on boot
The other day I received a message from another user with the same problem, I
hope it will be useful to anyone who will come to face the read-only boot
mounting issue.
== Begin forwarded message ==
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 22:17:59 -0900
From: Gunnar Hallgren <aske me if you want his address>
To: pabloaguiar at brfree.com.br
Subject: root partition (reiserfs) mounting read-only on boot
I had the exact same problem tonight after a kernel upgrde, but I quickly
ruled that out as all my backup kernels exhibited the same problem.
My fix: in fstab, make sure that "rw" is included in the reiserfs options
for your root dir.
eg,
/dev/hdc2 / reiserfs notail,noatime,rw 0 1
I have never needed to explicity tell it to mount rw in fstab before, so I
never put that in until tonight.
This is probably the dumbest thing I have ever seen in Linux.
I cannot figure out what broke what... or when... or why... but this was the
last-ditch effort that I truly did not expect to do anything.
As far as I can tell from your description in linux.debian.user, our
problems were identical, so I would surmise that this will get you going
too.
Good luck!
--
Gunnar Hallgren
== End forwarded message ==
Thanks to Gunnar.
Regards,
--
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