Root partition read-only

[Antonio Augusto (Mancha)]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:06, Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Willy Hamra wrote:
>
(snip)
>
>> 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.
>
> It's a conflict between the design of the boot process and the JFS
> filesystem package - deciding _when_ to run fsck is part of the boot
> process, but refusing to mount r/w _unless_ you get an fsck is part of JFS,
> and ideally one or the other or both would be fixed.  However, I've never
> filed a bug report because once I understood the process it became trivial
> to avoid the condition ever happening.  Probably that makes me a bad
> person: at least if I had filed a report somebody like Antonio would have
> been able to find the report and see how to avoid the problem too :-)
>
> However, I still think _how_ his filesystem came to be improperly dismounted
> is very much the "real issue".  Especially since he thinks it was a normal
> shutdown.

Hi Derek,
I'll try looking around old logs and see if I can find something
indicating a potential bad shutdown. But, as you said, not running
fsck when on batteries is a silly thing for sure.

Cheers