From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 12:12:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA17588 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 12:12:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA17527 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 12:11:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id ad20382; 27 Jun 96 17:45 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa26587; 27 Jun 96 18:08 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA00720; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 10:25:22 GMT Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 10:25:22 GMT Message-Id: <199606271025.KAA00720@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: dinosaur@igcom.net CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199606270502.AAA00952@terra.igcom.net> (message from One Kosher Pickle on Thu, 27 Jun 1996 00:02:10 -0500 (CDT)) Subject: Re: ro mount of root_device in single-user Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > After being informed by the folks in #freebsd that the root_device, when > booted in single-user mode, is supposed to be read-write, I have a > question.. For some reason, when booting the kernel with the -s option > (therefore booting single-user) my root_device is mounted as read-only. I > can't figure out why...any idea what's wrong? No, this is how it should work. If something goes wrong during the boot process, the system will start up in single-user mode to give you a chance to fix it, and mounting the root partition read-only prevents it from being trashed by whatever's causing the problem. Not to mention the possibility of finger-slips by the sysadmin 8-) -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk