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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