[Voyage-linux] RO/RW

Punky Tse (spam-protected)
Wed Apr 13 09:09:56 HKT 2005


The remountrw and remountro scripts located in /usr/local/sbin serve
the same purpose.

On 4/13/05, Kelly Hogan <kshogan at linora.com> wrote:
> I ran that road for awhile as well.
> 
> The /ro directory is copied in the boot process to the /rw system which
> lives in a TMPFS structure, so, no power, no more bits.
> 
> Do  a
> 
> voyage# mount / -o rw,remount
> voyage# apt-get update
> voyage# apt-get install whatever
> voyage# mount / -o ro,remount
> 
> Keep in mind that if you need to "enhance" the file system, put your
> enhancements in the /ro filesystem so the show up after a reboot.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 16:50, Joe Nelson wrote:
> > Ok, so this whole rw and ro thing is messing me up.  I'd like to run
> > apt-get to install some new packages, but it won't work because things
> > are set to read-only.  Do I need to just set /etc/fstab to rw and
> > reboot or is there an easier way to do this?
> 
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