From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MFA74-0005TP-Du for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F3352E0495; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2D63E0495 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7080464FF7 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.516 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.516 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.083, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id S5l4tvl2ngL3 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BEE765296 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MFA6q-0008Ua-I4 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:08 +0000 Received: from athedsl-370983.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.1.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:08 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-370983.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:08 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: weirdness with the mounting of / Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:59:58 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <7284e2210906120928t46c0ddf0kd6cfc702b6a739a9@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0906120941m4404ddcy7f6f1472926f91af@mail.gmail.com> <7284e2210906120944h4abe3074me1b47271fe7cd609@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-370983.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090610 Thunderbird/3.0b2 In-Reply-To: <7284e2210906120944h4abe3074me1b47271fe7cd609@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 602e062a-907b-4955-9565-1066592a302b X-Archives-Hash: dccbcfcd0edc9f8dda4d08d4a77c41fd On 06/12/2009 07:44 PM, Doug Hunley wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:41, Paul > Hartman wrote: >> I think your root is mounted before fstab comes into play... You may >> want to look into the "rootflags" option in your grub kernel >> commandline for passing the mount options for your root partition. >> > > That jives with what I'm (slowly) finding on Google as well. It seems > the kernel uses /dev/root when the rootfs is RO. Apparently an initrd > would solve this. Grr... It is remounted rw after the fschk using fstab options. If you change the options, you'll see they will apply (why would noatime apply otherwise.) You don't need an initrd.