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Re: root fs becomes ro after sleep!



On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:22:47PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> 
> > Odd.  Both of those imply that the kernel found the FS to be broken
> > somehow and remounted it read-only to prevent further damage.
> 
> debian always puts errors=remount-ro in the / filesystem mount option
> in /etc/fstab.  if /var was on / then syslog may not have had a chance
> to log that message before it was made readonly.

Mmmmm... yes, this is the case for me...  And yes, it probably would be
better to have var on a seperate partition for times like these...

Incidently, I was wondering the other day if I moved /var /usr and /etc to
their own partitions, is there any reason why / needs to get mounted rw at
all?

-raf



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