[clue-tech] And now for something completely different

Jef jdlabarnhart at home.com
Sat Jul 29 06:53:53 MDT 2000


mount -o remount ro /dev/hdx /

I believe that this is the "proper" way to do this.

Jef


Lynn Danielson wrote:

> grant wrote:
> >
> > If you do tell fstab to never fsck it, you may want it to do
> > so on a cron every once in a while anyway.
>
> I've been thinking about this and wondering how it should be
> done. You're not supposed to fsck mounted filesystems, right?
> Is it safe to run e2fsck from single user mode?  If so, one
> could set up a special runlevel which would act like single
> user mode except that it would kick off an e2fsck process and
> then return to the previous runlevel.  How does one remount
> the root filesystem read-only?
>
> Lynn
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