On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 04:30:35PM -0700, michael wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:42:16 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:17:28PM -0700, michael wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > What would I do if I actually wanted to boot and have my > > > system / mounted read only? > > > > when / is remounted, the flags in /etc/fstab are used, so to have / > > finish up mounted ro, you have to set it up so in the fstab. > > > > I ended up booting to single mode. > (typed in root password for command line) > > # init 1 > # mount -o remount,ro / > > This seemed to work. Thanks I see. I thought, from your question above, that you were ask how to do it in general. the fstab thing will cause it to always mount ro. For one-time use, yours is a fine solution. A
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