Anton Aylward wrote:
Per Jessen said the following on 12/29/2008 08:35 AM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
If /var errored and can't be mounted then why those errors? Surely it defaults back to the root FS, the /var on root that the mount would overlay?
No, the start-up will/must fail when the required filesystems cannot be mounted. Required = what's specified in /etc/fstab.
Yes, the start-up fails. I get the long line of messages saying thigns can't bee done becuase /var is read only.
Why is /var read only?
Wild guess - as long as the filesystem is actually fine, it may have been mounted read-only (for whatever reason), and was not yet mounted read-write - but during boot-up, lots of stuff will want to write to files in /var/log/, so it really needs to be up and running very fast. I think I would list /var with 6th field = 1 in fstab. What do you have now? /Per -- /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org