On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 02:08:26PM -0700, Samdeep Nayak wrote:
>
> I have two questions regarding the read-only file system in Linux.
>
> 1) Where can I get any documents which explain the read-only file system for
> Linux?
I'm not sure what you mean by "the read-only file system" -- most of the
filesystems supported by the Linux kernel can be read-write or read-only.
'man mount' might be what you're looking for.
> 2) Is it possible to switch between the modes (i.e. change the file system
> to read/write, install an application and get back to the read only mode
> without rebooting).
Yes. 'mount -o ro,remount /foo ; mount -o rw,remount' (plus whatever
other options and requirements are necessary).
Wil
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