Re: fmount system call

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@work.smurf.noris.de)
26 Jul 1997 13:03:03 +0200

kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de writes:
> >>
> >Actually, you can mount -o remount,ro them. No fsck necessary.
> >
> And it is a god idea to stick this into the shutdown script (i.e. if
> umount fails, try to remount every still-mounted filesystem readonly)
>
IMHO, umount should do that by itself (perhaps with an appropriate option).