Hi, I want to do something *bad* : to mount an already mounted ext3 partition. Mounting "-o bind" is not an option, this partition is mounted by different virtual machines. NFS is the right way to go, so I want another one :-) I have no problem mounting this partition read-only, but it seems that actually it is not really read-only. From /var/log/messages : Aug 29 11:26:43 xen02 kernel: EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem. Aug 29 11:26:43 xen02 kernel: EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery. Aug 29 11:26:43 xen02 kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Aug 29 11:26:43 xen02 kernel: EXT3-fs: recovery complete. Aug 29 11:26:43 xen02 kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. 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 ? Thanks, -- Philippe Naudin