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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: Grimoire <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] Strange init problem
  • Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:28:12 -0800

Quoting Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>:
> I have the problem as well. Do you use reiserfs for your root partition?
>
> There is some oddness associated with this:
> In the mountall, it tries to do an fsck on /
> reiserfs requires that the partition not be mounted at all. ro is not
> good enough. So the fsck fails badly and I had to log in with that
> emergency prompt.
>
> Running mount indicated that / was mounted rw
> touch /foo indicated that / was mounted ro.
> mount -o remount,ro / didn't make it ro or make fsck.reiserfs work.
> mount -o remount,rw did let me edit the mountall.sh script so that it
> wouldn't do the fsck.
>
> My computer rebooted without complaint. I have no idea what would cause
> those mount discrepancies.

All of my machines use reiserfs, but only a few of them have run into this
problem, so I'm not sure where it's coming from (if it were reiserfsprogs,
then
they would /all/ have the problem, same if it were from our init scripts). For
now I've just commented out the fsck run in mountall.sh.

-sandalle

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