[Bug 868755] Re: Always starts ro (read-only)

[komputes]

Thank you for taking in consideration the usability concern for the
recovery menu in 12.04. I suggest that something along the lines of
"Access Recovery Menu" be the verbose explanation for the remount/rw
action. I know we're working with limited space here so we may need to
get creative.

Do you know what specific usability changes are proposed for 12.04?

Feel free to re-open this bug if you would like to track this as a
usability bug and not a request to boot directly into the recovery menu.

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Title:
  Always starts ro (read-only)

Status in “friendly-recovery” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Why does friendly-recovery assume I am running it at boot time in ro?
  I don't understand what prompted this change. In the rare occasion
  that systems need to be mounted ro, shouldn't that be done as a kernel
  boot parameter?

  Running /lib/friendly-recovery/recovery-menu from gnome-terminal, I
  still have to do remount. It doesn't detect that the root filesystem
  is already mounted.

  From what I understand ro is mounted so that fsck can check the disk
  without modifying it. AFAIK fsck should run automatically in ro if
  dirty filesystems were detected and issues are not correctable (or if
  it had passed a number of boots without a check, then preform a check)
  so why is this being done every time?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: friendly-recovery 0.2.18
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Oct  5 17:33:22 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110817)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: friendly-recovery
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-04 (0 days ago)

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