[arch-general] root not remounted rw

[Philipp Überbacher]

Quoting Tom Gundersen (2012-01-26 13:12:16)
>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

Thanks Vic and Tom, I wasn't aware of this change.

Regards,
Philipp