Re: Forcing root filesystem read-only during normal operation
T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com> wrote:
> % mount -o ro,remount /dev/sda5 / && echo yes
> yes
> $ mount | grep sda5
> /dev/sda5 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,nodiratime)
> Still NOK!?
Well. Actually it's quite possible it worked. And once the mount worked,
the tool tried to update /etc/mtab to reflect the new situation. But
that failed because the filesystem is now read-only.
The proof is whether something like "touch /.test" succeeds, or not.
CHris
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