[arch-general] root not remounted rw

[Tom Gundersen]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Vic Demuzere <vic at demuzere.be> wrote:
> 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.

The change was in 'initscripts'. The default is to remount rw, but you
need to have an entry for '/' in fstab.

-t