On Tue, Jan 7, 2020, 10:24 AM Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> Le 07/01/2020 à 15:28, Kenneth Parker a écrit : > > > > As far as I know, it's mounted ro, so that initrd can check if it is okay > > Nonsense. The initramfs can check the root filesystem before mounting > it, so it does not need to mount it read-only. > I've been wrong before. So are you saying that initrd is called without / being mounted at all! > > > (via fsck). And initrd is then supposed to remount it rw. > > I don't think so. If you change the default final init with something > like init=/bin/bash for example, you can see that the root filesystem is > still mounted read-only. So something in the init system remounts it > read-write. With sysvinit it is done in checkroot.sh according to mount > options in fstab. I don't know about systemd. > Something more, for me to learn. Kenneth Parker >
