Re: How to mount ext3 root partition with noatime and ro options at boot-time

Christian Kujau <[email protected]> Tue, 17 May 2011 13:10:16 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.ext3.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 16 May 2011 at 18:42, Amey wrote:
>         I was trying to mount root-partition which is ext3 partition with
> noatime and ro option. I included "ro" in the kernel command line  But for
> mounting it with "noatime" option when I searched for some solution I came

Use tune2fs(8) to set default mount options for this partition. Or use the 
"rootflags=" bootparameter, e.g. rootflags=noatime,ro for setting noatime 
& readonly for the root filesystem.

HTH,
Christian.
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