Comments on: Linux with / mounted read-only

By: Mikael Ståldal

Mikael Ståldal — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:15:34 +0000

I have now upgraded to karmic, there you have to do it in /etc/fstab. See new post about this.

By: Mikael Ståldal

Mikael Ståldal — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:05:35 +0000

David,

I haven’t tried karmic yet. But try searching for “domount” in all files in /etc/init.d:
grep domount /etc/init.d/*

By: Mikael Ståldal

Mikael Ståldal — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:00:55 +0000

I have found out that it in Ubuntu 9.04, it is not necessary to create any directories in /media, HAL will do that automatically.

I’m not sure about Ubuntu 8.10.

By: David Burgess

David Burgess — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:00:19 +0000

Can’t find mountkernfs.sh in karmic
I love this blog entry; still come back here any time I install a new system. I guess change is good and I’ll have to figure out how the new Ubuntu mounts its filesystems at boot.

By: distrol

distrol — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:22:37 +0000

Greeeeat!!!!

This was exactly what I’ve been looking for at some time now.

Thank you Mikael!

By: Mikael Ståldal

Mikael Ståldal — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:27:35 +0000

Added /var/cache/apt.

By: starfry

starfry — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:27:58 +0000

Hi, good information.
I have problem with network manager not knowing network is complete (presume it needs to write to a state file that is now read-only). Any ideas what the file might be?

nm-applet constantly shows “finishing connection to wired network” and firefox starts in offline mode.

cheers.

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By: David Burgess

David Burgess — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:01:56 +0000

Re: 8.10

I got it figured. I simply added a variable to each ‘domount’ line in /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh. For example, I changed the first line from

domount tmpfs “” /var/tmp -omode=1777,nodev,noexec,nosuid

domount tmpfs “” /var/tmp vartmp -omode=1777,nodev,noexec,nosuid

adding ‘vartmp’. Works great. Thank you for a very practical guide.

By: David Burgess

David Burgess — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:33:17 +0000

Any plan to update this for 8.10 or 9.04? I’ve tried your method on 8.04 but it doesn’t look like any of the changes to /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh are being effected.