On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Keith Keller <kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > On 2015-03-23, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote: >> >> For future reference -L is a big hammer. If you use it without >> explicitly attempting a read-write mount (which a read only mount at >> boot time will not do because it's an ro mount by default) > > ...for the root filesystem, anyway. For nonroot filesystems it should > use whatever flags are set in fstab. (Granted many boxes likely have / > as the only on-disk fs.) Even the root ro to rw remount swicheroo is antiquated. Not ext3/4, XFS, nor Btrfs want you to run an fsck on an ro mounted volume. Both e2fsck and xfs_repair use strong wording saying not to do it, to the point I think it's crusty weirdness to keep the code allowing things like "dangerous" mode repair. The btrfs check tool on the other hand will neither check nor repair a mounted volume - it's actually a nearly last resort there. Usually normal mount fixes things, and if not the first option is to use -o recovery mount option. -- Chris Murphy