70349 – filesystems should be forced to remount ro if normal remount fails in halt.sh

Bug 70349 - filesystems should be forced to remount ro if normal remount fails in halt.sh

Summary: filesystems should be forced to remount ro if normal remount fails in halt.sh

Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] baselayout (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Reported:	2004-11-07 06:10 UTC by Marcin Kryczek (RETIRED)
Modified:	2004-11-30 21:34 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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patch for halt.sh (halt.sh.patch,1.12 KB, patch) 2004-11-07 06:10 UTC, Marcin Kryczek (RETIRED)	Details \| Diff
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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