On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 11:34:33PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > @@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ Options > When mounting an ext3 filesystem, the following option are accepted: > (*) == default > > +ro Mount filesystem read only. Note that ext3 will replay > + the journal (and thus write to the partition) even when > + mounted "read only". "ro, noload" can be used to prevent > + writes to the filesystem. I'd sugest "ro,noload" since the spaces screw up the mount options parsing both on the command-line and in /etc/fstab. So how about: Using the mount options "ro,noload" can be used.... > @@ -95,6 +102,8 @@ debug Extra debugging information is s > errors=remount-ro(*) Remount the filesystem read-only on an error. > errors=continue Keep going on a filesystem error. > errors=panic Panic and halt the machine if an error occurs. > + (Note that default is overriden by superblock > + setting on most systems). The default is always specified by the superblock setting. So users will probably find it easier to understand if we remove the "(*)" and to add the explanatory comment: (These mount options override the errors behavior specified in the superblock, which can be configured using tune2fs) Pavel, thanks for working on improving the documentation; with these fixes, Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> - Ted -- 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
