[Bug 575469] Re: [UIFe] [FFe] recovery mode mounts filesystems read-write rather than read-only

[Stéphane Graber]

No more changes to initramfs-tools are required. The changes I just
pasted haven't been tested yet as I'm busy using my VMs for other
things. I'll be pushing these to my PPA now and will have them tested
later tonight.

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Title:
  [UIFe] [FFe] recovery mode mounts filesystems read-write rather than
  read-only

Status in “friendly-recovery” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “newt” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “friendly-recovery” source package in Oneiric:
  Confirmed
Status in “newt” source package in Oneiric:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: friendly-recovery

  In recovery mode, filesystems should probably be mounted read-only,
  since pending any problems they can safely be remounted read-write,
  while the reverse is not necessarily true.  This means that operations
  such as fsck, badblocks, zerofree, etc. are not possible without
  having to use a boot CD, and ensuring that any additional binaries are
  compatible.  One should assume that booting into recovery mode is
  either deliberate or has come about because of a problem.

  f-r 0.2.10 on lucid/2.6.32-21-generic

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