[arch-general] root not remounted rw
Hi there, on one of my laptops, the one that runs Arch since 2+ years now, root isn't remounted rw for some reason. Manually remounting ("sudo remount -r remount,rw /dev/sda3/ /") after boot works fine. There are no errors in dmesg. This problem persists since a few weeks, the system is fully updated. I couldn't figure out what the problem could be, so I hope you could help me on this one. One additional piece of information, related or not, is that apparently the mainboard battery has gone flat, the laptop thinks its 2006 after every boot until ntpd corrects the time. This happened a couple of weeks before the remount problem showed up, so I doubt it's related. Things I've tried: - filesystem check - SMART check - re-install of various packages Regards, Philipp
Le mardi 24 jan 2012 à 21:32:11 (+0100), Philipp Überbacher a écrit :
Hi there, on one of my laptops, the one that runs Arch since 2+ years now, root isn't remounted rw for some reason. Manually remounting ("sudo remount -r remount,rw /dev/sda3/ /") after boot works fine. There are no errors in dmesg. This problem persists since a few weeks, the system is fully updated. I couldn't figure out what the problem could be, so I hope you could help me on this one.
One additional piece of information, related or not, is that apparently the mainboard battery has gone flat, the laptop thinks its 2006 after every boot until ntpd corrects the time. This happened a couple of weeks before the remount problem showed up, so I doubt it's related.
Things I've tried: - filesystem check - SMART check - re-install of various packages
Regards, Philipp
Could you show us your /etc/fstab file ? -- Pazdera Corentin (Nado) Clé PGP/PGP key : http://troglodyte.be/pub/pubkey.pgp.asc
Quoting (2012-01-24 21:53:55)
Le mardi 24 jan 2012 à 21:32:11 (+0100), Philipp Überbacher a écrit :
Hi there, on one of my laptops, the one that runs Arch since 2+ years now, root isn't remounted rw for some reason. Manually remounting ("sudo remount -r remount,rw /dev/sda3/ /") after boot works fine. There are no errors in dmesg. This problem persists since a few weeks, the system is fully updated. I couldn't figure out what the problem could be, so I hope you could help me on this one.
One additional piece of information, related or not, is that apparently the mainboard battery has gone flat, the laptop thinks its 2006 after every boot until ntpd corrects the time. This happened a couple of weeks before the remount problem showed up, so I doubt it's related.
Things I've tried: - filesystem check - SMART check - re-install of various packages
Regards, Philipp
Could you show us your /etc/fstab file ?
Thanks Nado, this was the hint I needed. I compared the fstab entry with the one of my new Arch install and noticed that it had an entry for /. Once I had added the entry root was mounted rw as it should be. I don't remember editing fstab recently so I don't know how this came to be. Maybe the / entry wasn't needed for a while? I remember a change a couple months back that suggested the removal of fstab entries. 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? Sorry Nado for only replying to you personally the first time, I'm using a new mail client that's not as clever as the previous one and I need to manually tell it to reply to the list, which I tend to forget. Regards, Philipp
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. -- Vic Demuzere
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
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
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