I think that the issue is due to the fact that the ro/rw status of a loopdevice is set once that is created and cannot be changed later on.
So if /host is ro or if the loop device is created via losetup ro or if it is created implictily via mount -o loop,ro, then it will not be possible to remount the underlying filesystem rw even if the loopfile contains an ext3 filesystem. It might be worth trying to see if blockdev --setrw can fix that (cannot test that now). losetup -r /dev/loop5 loop_file_with_ext3 #the generated loop device is now ro for life mount -o ro /dev/loop5 /mnt blockdev --setrw /dev/loop5 mount -o remount,rw /mnt -- Cannot remount loopfiles inside of vfat https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201750 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
