nice and quick point! thanks a lot :) > You could have found it out by refering to "man mount". :-) yes, it seems to be right! ;)
> So I'd say you should always take care that write operations are finished properly (and so brought to an end) but, how to become sure my write operations are completely finished?? by obtaining some sort of sleep time before my restart command in my upgrade shell for example? or there are other special ways to do so? Best Regards, t.a.k On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:55:10 +0330, takCoder wrote: > > via googling, i found out that i can use "mount -u" on the mentioned > > device, and then after doing whatsoever needed, when i restart my server > > the ro permission will be back via applying old fstab.. > > You could have found it out by refering to "man mount". :-) > > > > > but i have no idea what kind of effects it may have on my server.. i > > couldn't find anything but suggestions about not to use this so often.. > and > > i really need to know why?? cause my bsd server is not allowed to be > missed > > almost at all.. > > > > i think that because this -u option is just increasing my permissions in > > this case, there won't be a danger for my server. is that true?! > > There are _few_ side effects that _may_ apply when using the -u > option. From the manual: > > The -u flag indicates that the status of an already mounted file > system should be changed. Any of the options discussed above > (the -o option) may be changed; also a file system can be changed > from read-only to read-write or vice versa. An attempt to change > from read-write to read-only will fail if any files on the file > system are currently open for writing unless the -f flag is also > specified. The set of options is determined by applying the > options specified in the argument to -o and finally applying the > -r or -w option. > > So I'd say you should always take care that write operations > are finished properly (and so brought to an end). > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
