From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 28 05:36:48 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAFEF3C4 for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 05:36:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from saeedeh.motlagh@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lb0-f174.google.com (mail-lb0-f174.google.com [209.85.217.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5888E955 for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 05:36:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f174.google.com with SMTP id u10so7344312lbi.19 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 22:36:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=78pvuKITdMhPUb5sFI6dIe6oELdga0ewuLrb54POb4g=; b=ARem7LWVzFFgJfmSQWjDQOUHL4hMNeov0ll0jGAzS+XLQh/g4NYLN4CB2AevVKfXKq /kUqnVF/xsPNblAdJZJolJTiWyCoqUeJ8G1m5nZoIs8NB7xhUJMW9x3CaZND+dZj8tPi qsFEzS8Ab8NKJrTR1HpOyECfAkGrIlRD1P2UdTE5AJteUwDakcGKUeejII46JvrF77V2 +4JnufnauMNfUoXQWgFZm87MEVVTVzvE4OT5LlesIXxYmhGd8ItgvafAJHSfzhY2ORUm gPttm23ykHCraK9MMHzxsaUECaPxVxeCiZSDwlD9MZbr4aBd9MT3bsGbU4tieJDWrH9O 8I6g== X-Received: by 10.112.19.9 with SMTP id a9mr15480731lbe.80.1369718982914; Mon, 27 May 2013 22:29:42 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.112.149.33 with HTTP; Mon, 27 May 2013 22:29:02 -0700 (PDT) From: saeedeh motlagh Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 09:59:02 +0430 Message-ID: Subject: when root partition is mounted in boot time? To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 05:36:48 -0000 hello all, i have a question about root partition. i want to know when this partition is mounted in bootstrap process? is root mounted before kernel loading? more over, i heard that root partition is mounted read-only in boot process before loading kernel. after that kernel is loaded and all other things are done (such as mounting other devices, running rc scripts, ...), then the root in unmounted and remount read-write. is it true? if not, what exactly happened for root partition in boot time and when is mounted? t =E2=80=8Bhanks in advance *s.motlagh* **