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Re: Some ideas about new features of grub
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Colin Watson |
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Re: Some ideas about new features of grub |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:32:36 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 06:20:13PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> The other problem is that scripts like os-prober that use linux
> filesystem code for probing filesystems destroy your data.
>
> Linux cannot mount journalled filesystems readonly. It always modifies
> them. The extent of the modifications and the impact may vary
> depending on the state of the filesystem (clean/mounted) and the way
> you are going to use it in the future (resume the system/fresh boot)
> but until Linux people implement readonly filesystem support any Linux
> based os-probers cannot be recommended.
I'm pretty sure this is fixable with blockdev --setro. The main reason
we haven't got round to doing this in os-prober yet is that we need to
get round to adding blockdev to busybox (which is important for
os-prober's original purpose, the Debian installer).
--
Colin Watson address@hidden
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, (continued)
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- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Bean, 2009/07/04
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Robert Millan, 2009/07/07
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Pavel Roskin, 2009/07/08
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Robert Millan, 2009/07/10
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, BandiPat, 2009/07/10
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Bean, 2009/07/11
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Michal Suchanek, 2009/07/11
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub,
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- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Robert Millan, 2009/07/11
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Felix Zielcke, 2009/07/11
- Re: Some ideas about new features of grub, Robert Millan, 2009/07/11
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