Re: Why root fs "read-only" on shutdown?

["Daniel Haude" <dunno@stoptrick.com>]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:29:02 +0100, Douglas Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>  
wrote:

> In my S40unmountfs:
>
>
> echo -n "Unmounting local filesystems..."
> umount -tnoproc,noprocfs,nodevfs,nosysfs,nousbfs,nousbdevfs,nodevpts -d  
> -a -r
> echo "done."
>
> # This is superfluous.
> mount -n -o remount,ro /
>
>
> The umount -r means that in case unmounting fails, remount ro,
> which therefore makes the mount -o remount,ro superfluous.
>
> If you disable both attempts to remount ro and either power off or fsck,
> you risk corruption.

Ah, I missed the -r subtlety. All this makes sense. Thanks.

--Daniel