Root partition read-only

[Willy Hamra]

2009/4/16 Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca>:
> Antonio Augusto (Mancha) wrote:
>
>> Hey Derek, Thanks for the feedback.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:52, Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca>
>> wrote:
>
>>> Probably not "corrupted", but you're not going through a proper shutdown.
>>> If a filesystem doesn't get properly dismounted, it's marked "dirty" and
>>> JFS will want to do an fsck on start-up.
>>
>> Thats the problem... For what i remember i shut the computer properly,
>> without any issues what so ever... :/
>>
>
> You need to look back at the logs for the time you did the shutdown - but
> I'd pretty much guarantee that something went wrong in the shutdown
> process.
> --

but this is not the real issue. he might have powered off his lappie
with no proper shutdown, still, that is no solution to just give him a
read-only root partition. fsck should run, even when on battery power,
or at the very least prompt him to choose between running it, booting
with an ro root parition, or powering back off till he plugs the
lappie into power and can run fsck.


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Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computers and Billy Net.