On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 jcarminati@pluspetrol.com.ar wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Now I know where all this begans...
>
> Anyway, I still don't understand why mount reported that it had an ext2 fs
> in rw mode mounted (wrong) while actually was mounted ext3 in ro mode,
> which disconcerted me a little more.
>From the mount man-page:
The programs mount and umount maintain a list of currently
mounted file systems in the file /etc/mtab. If no argu-
ments are given to mount, this list is printed. When the
proc filesystem is mounted (say at /proc), the files
/etc/mtab and /proc/mounts have very similar contents. The
former has somewhat more information, such as the mount
options used, but is not necessarily up-to-date [..]
It's very likely that the mtab had some "pre-crash" information in it and
didn't get updated because the / partition was mounted ro.
best regards, michael
