[CentOS] mounting an ext3 filesystem "-o ro"

[Hakan Koseoglu]

On 29 August 2011 15:18, Philippe Naudin
<philippe.naudin at supagro.inra.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to do something *bad* : to mount an already mounted ext3
> partition.
Use a clustering file system (i.e., ocfs2) instead.

> This recovery is probably triggered by the file /.autofsck, but I
> have not found how to get rid of this feature. Is there a way to
> read an ext3 filesystem, completely disabling recovery and any
> write operation ?
Mounting in ext2 will ignore the journalling but not recommended. In
any case you won't be able to mount a dirty ext3 filesystem as ext2.