Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

[Andrew Pollock <andrew@andrew.net.au>]

On Wed, 2 May 2001, Oki DZ wrote:

> William Leese wrote:
> > oh, i didn't backup /proc and /tmp because tar spewed out a few error
> > messages. but from what i can recall /proc is created by the kernel(?) and
> > for /tmp the directory just needs to be recreated, correct?
> 
> You'd need to recreate the /proc directory; the system uses it as the
> mount point (of  the proc filesystem). You can safely recreate the /tmp
> directory; its content is always deleted on reboot.
> 
> BTW, I have all my partitions running on reiserfs; problem is, when the
> system booted up, / partition is always mounted read-only, so that the
> transaction log is always replayed on, well, read-only filesystem. I
> have done update-rc.d -f checkfs.sh remove, so that fsck wouldn't be
> done on the system. But that doesn't make the root partition mounted
> read-write on boot. The question is, how can I set the system so that
> the / partition mounted read-write?

Using LILO?

image=/vmlinuz
        label=Linux
        read-only

Lose the read-only directive.

Andrew