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Re: Forcing root filesystem read-only during normal operation



On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 07:05:27PM +1000, Ross Peachey wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to force a filesystem read-only from Debian
> during normal operation? I need to do this for testing of a failure
> mode.
> 
> The following doesn't work:
> 
> * hdparm -r1 <device>
> * mount -o ro,remount /

does it fail because you have open files.

the only other way is to take apart the initrd and force the root fs to
a mount -o ro


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