[arch-general] root not remounted rw

Vic Demuzere vic at demuzere.be
Thu Jan 26 06:48:33 EST 2012


On 26 January 2012 12:43, Philipp Überbacher <hollunder at 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.

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Vic Demuzere


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