"D. Stimits" wrote:
> I noticed one other thing during the process that is definitely a bug,
> but not necessarily xfs...it could be a mount bug. While in single user
> mode, after remounting the partition read-only, it was falsely listed as
> read/write when the mount command was run to see current mounts. I know
> it was incorrect becase I tried intentionally to write to a file as a
> test, and it correctly told me the file could not be saved because the
> partition was read-only.
I've seen this before... I think it's a result of /etc/mtab not being
updated before the / partition is made read-only. (ext2 root does this
for me, too, at least on RH7.1) Try cat /proc/mounts and see what you
get - it should say "ro".
-Eric
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