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Subject: Re: ext3 clings to you like flypaper
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: James Bourne <jbourne@mtroyal.ab.ca>
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On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 17:17, James Bourne wrote:
> > No, but it remounts the disk read-write after it mounts it read-only.
> > It can switch from ext2 to ext3 at that point.
> 
> This is a function of your distribution.  The
> init scripts *should* read /etc/fstab after the kernel mounts /
> ro and then remount / rw with whatever other options are specified.

No. You can't remount between ext2 and ext3 like you can for ro/rw.
You'd have to unmount it completely and remount it.

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dwmw2
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