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From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Subject: Re: bin/26886: mount -w doesn't work on a normally read-only filesystem 
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The following reply was made to PR bin/26886; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To: archie@packetdesign.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/26886: mount -w doesn't work on a normally read-only filesystem 
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:35:57 -0700

 Archie Cobbs <archie@packetdesign.com> writes:
 > 
 > >Number:         26886
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       mount -w doesn't work on a normally read-only filesystem
 > >Description:
 > 
 > 	The "-w" flag to mount(8) doesn't work if the filesystem
 > 	is marked with the "ro" option in /etc/fstab.
 > 
 > 	It seems like "-w" should override /etc/fstab.
 
 Could you please try the attached patch?  (There may be a little fuzz;
 I've some local modifications that I had to coerce out of the diff
 manually.)
 
 Thanks,
 
 					Dima Dorfman
 					dima@unixfreak.org
 
 
 Index: mount.c
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /st/src/FreeBSD/src/sbin/mount/mount.c,v
 retrieving revision 1.41
 diff -u -r1.41 mount.c
 --- mount.c	2000/11/22 17:54:56	1.41
 +++ mount.c	2001/04/27 01:34:17
 @@ -410,6 +412,9 @@
  		optbuf = catopt(optbuf, "force");
  	if (flags & MNT_RDONLY)
  		optbuf = catopt(optbuf, "ro");
 +	else
 +		remopt(optbuf, "ro");
 +
  	/*
  	 * XXX
  	 * The mount_mfs (newfs) command uses -o to select the

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