On Mon, 07 Jun 1999 00:22:58 +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout
<s3100411@student.anu.edu.au> said:
> I've been wondering about this for a while now.
> Why is it that mounting a 5Gig partition read-only
> is instanteous, but mounting read-write take
> forever (well, a while anyway)
Mounting read-write does a few extra consistency checks on the block and
inode bitmaps. You can disable them with "mount -o check=none".
--Stephen
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