> Hi,
>
> I have a question. Is it possible to change a filesystem's
> readonly/writeable flag without unmounting them?
> For example to mount / readonly but if a change has to be done to quickly
> mount it writeable and then readonly again.
> ie. somehow to sort of sync(), and then to change it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andi
>
# umount / # un-mounts root fs if it isn't busy.
# It is actually still mounted, but read-only
# no need to sync(). All buffers are flushed.
# mount -n -o remount / # re-mounts root fs r/w
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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