Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

[Cory <cory AT schmidtsite.us>]

As a matter of fact my root partition is reiserfs. I also ended up just 
commenting out the checkfs call in my mountall.sh script so I could boot 
but the temporary solution doesn't quite sit well with me :-).

Eric, reiserfsprogs was another of the spells that had been updated when 
I did the system update so maybe that was the culprit. Is it possible 
that the machines that don't have the problem are running a previous 
version of reiserfsprogs? If not I'd be happy to compare notes with you 
to see if we can get to the bottom of this.

Thanks,

Cory

Eric Sandall wrote:
> 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