The safest way is to boot from the RH CD and select "resuce" image
Then once it's booted unmount the partition and fsck it.
But I guess if you wanted it to be ro instead of unmounted when you run fsck
you can always run a:
mount -o remount,ro /path/to/partition
-Joe
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 11:25 pm, you wrote:
> I'm running RedHat 7.1 SeaWolf, and I'm trying to get the root
> partition to mount as read-only.
>
> At the LILO prompt I'm entering "linux ro", but nothing happens. Has
> anyone else had this problem? How do I get into read-only without
> trashing my hard disk for it? Would rdev parameters work? Whatever
> is the easiest route. I'd like to run a bad block scan again; that's
> why I want to do this.
>
> Mario
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