Duane Griffin wrote:2009/1/3 Martin MOKREJÅ <mmokrejs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:Hmm, so if my dual-boot machine does not shutdown correctly and I bootYou *really* wouldn't want to be doing that.
accidentally in M$ Win where I use ext2 IFS driver and modify some
stuff on the ext3 drive, after a while reboot to linux and the journal
get re-played ... Mmm ...
The other scenario that people have reported trouble with is
suspending the system, booting a live CD which "read-only" mounts the
filesystem (and replays the journal), then resuming.
Why does not "mount -ro" die when it would have to replay the journal
with a message that user must run fsck.ext3 in order to be able to mount
it albeit read-only? Still I would prefer having an extra switch to
force mount RO while not touching the journal for disk forensics.
I think that would also prevent the cases when a LiveCD/rescue distribution
would not mount+replay it automagically but user would really have to
provide the switch to the command. I am really not using the recovery
boot cd to touch my partitions in some cases unwillingly.