[CLUE-Cert] Food and some stuff about the labs

[Dennis J Perkins]

Sean LeBlanc wrote:

> Are you guys planning on eating at Hoong's Palace
> at the usual time?

Yes.

>
>
> Also, anyone look at the lab(s) for Chapter 1?
>
> The first advanced question for lab 1 asks:
> "When is it *not* necessary to unmount a file system
> before running fsck on it?"
>
> In the beginning of the lab, they have this verbiage:
> "With the exception of root, file systems have to be
> unmounted before they can be checked."
>
> I assume this means the file system mounted on literally,
> "/root", not the filesystem mounted on "/"? And
> if so, does it not have to unmounted because it's
> loaded into memory already?
>

No, they mean "/".  At boot time, a boot script mounts the root
partition as read-only, fsck is run, then the partition is remounted
rw.  Remounting can be done this way:  mount -o remount,rw -n /

>
> Do you think it'd be helpful to do the lab(s) for
> Chapter 1 as a group?
>
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