On Fri, 04 Oct 2002 18:21:14 -0400 (EDT), "Michael J. Accetta" <mja@laurelnetworks.com> said: > > > Then in /etc/rc.oneshot, do something like this: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdXXXX > > tune2fs -j -J size=XXX /dev/hdXXXX > > rm -f /etc/rc.oneshot > > reboot > > > > After you make these sorts of changes to the root filesystem, even > > though it's mounted read-only, you really do want to reboot > > immediately. Hence the need for doing it as a rc script that only is > > run once. > > Presumably /etc/rc.oneshot is on the (read-only) root file system so > unfortunately it can't be as straightforward as this. > Here's what I changed in rc.sysinit: ---- if [ -x /etc/rc.oneshot -a ! -f /etc/.doneoneshot ] ; then /etc/rc.oneshot fi # Remount the root filesystem read-write. state=`awk '/(^\/dev\/root| \/ )/ { print $4 }' /proc/mounts` [ "$state" != "rw" ] && \ action $"Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: " \ mount -n -o remount,rw / if [ -x /etc/rc.oneshot -a ! -f /etc/.doneoneshot ] ; then /bin/mv -f /etc/rc.oneshot /etc/rc.oneshot.done /bin/touch /etc/.doneoneshot /sbin/reboot fi ---- I checked for both files because of paranoia--I don't have access to the console, so I have to be really sure the machine will come back up! _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users