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Re: Read-only root (Re: Computer won't power off)



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On Thursday 29 November 2001 04:57 pm, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:21:17AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> > > for grub add it to the kernel stanza:
> > >
> > >   kernel  /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 apm=on read-only
> >
> >                                            ^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Is that going to make the root partition mounted read only?
>
> Initially yes (I think).  But have a look at /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh
> too to see what happens later on.

Yes, this is done so fsck can check your filesystems for you before any 
changes are made.  Standard procedure.
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