Re: document ext3 requirements

Martin MOKREJŠ
2009-01-04T00:12:14Z

Duane Griffin wrote:
> 2009/1/3 Martin MOKREJŠ <mmokrejs@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz>:
>> Why does not "mount -ro" die when it would have to replay the journal
>> with a message that user must run fsck.ext3 in order to be able to mount
>> it albeit read-only? Still I would prefer having an extra switch to
>> force mount RO while not touching the journal for disk forensics.
>> I think that would also prevent the cases when a LiveCD/rescue distribution
>> would not mount+replay it automagically but user would really have to
>> provide the switch to the command. I am really not using the recovery
>> boot cd to touch my partitions in some cases unwillingly.
>
> Well, that would make things rather tricky. As in, shutting down
> uncleanly would render your system unbootable.

??? If I am booted off a CD/DVD drive I just do not want my system
to be touched. I am fine if the dist mounts my drives automagically
in read-only mode but if that currently forces journal replay then no,
thanks. ;)

M.