Bug 70349

Summary:	filesystems should be forced to remount ro if normal remount fails in halt.sh
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Marcin Kryczek (RETIRED) <mkay>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	patch for halt.sh

Description Marcin Kryczek (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-07 06:10:11 UTC

i think it would be nice to force remounting filesystem into read-only mode when normal remount fails and user won't login into root account to fix it. i'm attaching proposal patch to halt.sh

Comment 1 Marcin Kryczek (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-07 06:10:53 UTC

Created attachment 43469 [details, diff]
patch for halt.sh

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-11-30 21:34:58 UTC

`mount -f` means 'fake mount'
`umount -f` means 'force unmount'

there is no 'force' option for mount