Duane Griffin wrote: > 2009/1/3 Martin MOKREJŠ <mmokrejs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> Why does not "mount -ro" die when it would have to replay the journal >> with a message that user must run fsck.ext3 in order to be able to mount >> it albeit read-only? Still I would prefer having an extra switch to >> force mount RO while not touching the journal for disk forensics. >> I think that would also prevent the cases when a LiveCD/rescue distribution >> would not mount+replay it automagically but user would really have to >> provide the switch to the command. I am really not using the recovery >> boot cd to touch my partitions in some cases unwillingly. > > Well, that would make things rather tricky. As in, shutting down > uncleanly would render your system unbootable. ??? If I am booted off a CD/DVD drive I just do not want my system to be touched. I am fine if the dist mounts my drives automagically in read-only mode but if that currently forces journal replay then no, thanks. ;) M. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
