How to mount ext3 root partition with noatime and ro options at boot-time

Stephen Samuel samuel at bcgreen.com
Wed May 18 03:13:50 UTC 2011


So, if you mount the system ro, then why do you even need noatime -- since
atime can't be updated at all if you're not writing to the filesystem.

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Christian Kujau <lists at nerdbynature.de>wrote:

> On Mon, 16 May 2011 at 18:42, Amey wrote:
> >         I was trying to mount root-partition which is ext3 partition with
> > noatime and ro option. I included "ro" in the kernel command line  But
> for
> > mounting it with "noatime" option when I searched for some solution I
> came
>
> Use tune2fs(8) to set default mount options for this partition. Or use the
> "rootflags=" bootparameter, e.g. rootflags=noatime,ro for setting noatime
> & readonly for the root filesystem.
>
> HTH,
> Christian.
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