Re: ext3 and kernel 2.4.10

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct redhat com>]

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:14:59AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:

> The root partition never gets umounted. You can change into runlevel 1
> where no process should write file handles, umount / (it becomes ro
> mounted automaticaly) and work with tune2fs. 

OK so far...

> When done, do
> mount / -o remount,rw

On 2.4.10, that will not work --- you'll just end up with the
filesystem overwriting the superblock which tune2fs updated.

Cheers,
 Stephen