> Hi,
>
> I have a question. Is it possible to change a filesystem's
> readonly/writeable flag without unmounting them?
> For example to mount / readonly but if a change has to be done to quickly
> mount it writeable and then readonly again.
> ie. somehow to sort of sync(), and then to change it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andi
>
RTFM: mount(8).
I'm not sure what your tring to do ultimately, but if you do RTFM you see:
mount /mountpoint -o remount,rw
do stuff
mount /mountpoint -o remount,ro
most flags can can be changed ....
If you want to do it on a filesystem that contains /etc (ie /etc/mtab is,
or will be, on a readonly fs), then you need the -n switch too.
Bryn
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