Quoting Tom Gundersen (2012-01-26 13:12:16)
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Vic Demuzere <vic@demuzere.be> wrote:
On 26 January 2012 12:43, Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@lavabit.com> wrote:
Anyway, what's the explanation for this behavior? Is / only mounted (and remounted) ro by default? I guess it's the 'defaults' entry, which includes rw, that leads to the remount as rw. Is it normal that it is necessary?
This has changed recently (in the filesystem package, if I remember correctly). The / partition used to be mounted rw automatically, now it uses the fstab entry as that allows you to mount it ro if you want.
The change was in 'initscripts'. The default is to remount rw, but you need to have an entry for '/' in fstab.
-t
Thanks Vic and Tom, I wasn't aware of this change. Regards, Philipp