Remounting a drive as read/write crashes the system and no
dmesg.boot
Scott Schappell
archon at silvertree.org
Tue Aug 18 20:35:43 UTC 2009
On Aug 18, 2009, at 13:11:10, Tim Judd wrote:
> On my CF-based devices (firewalls.. nagios boxes, etc), I run:
>
> mount -uw /
> to update the mount (not mount again) the filesystem. If you're
> trying to mount again, I could understand why the box panics.
>
>
> Try in your script:
> mount -u -w /backups
> or shorter by a little:
> mount -uw /backups
>
> do your stuff, then go back to read-only:
> mount -ur /backups
>
>
> HTH
We have a winner. I am sheepish in admitting I didn't read the man
page well enough for mount.
Thanks for the answer!
Scott
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