Hello! Sure, I've seen some distributions do this, go for it! You can supply everything important in fstab through the kernel command line: device => root; type => rootfstype; options => rootflags Mount point, dump and fsck cannot be supplied, but even fsck is provided by systemd-fsck-root.service. Also mind that you can supply rw or ro for the rootfs to be mounted as such, and that ext2/3/4 can store flags within itself, see -o under tune2fs(8). -- Oliver Temlin On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Kalrish Bäakjen <kalrish.antrax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > I have been playing with the initramfs, and I noticed that the root > filesystem is mounted in read-write mode in early init. Since, by the time > /etc/fstab is available, the filesystem on which it resides (presumably, > the root filesystem) is already mounted, and mounting it is anyway early > init's task, not real init's (because the real init cannot be found without > the initramfs), there seems to be no point in keeping it listed. I haven't > found anything about this, but commenting out the pertinent line hasn't > broken anything. Is it fine, or are there any reasons for it to be listed > in fstab? > > Regards, > Kalrish
