On Wed, 2 May 2001, Oki DZ wrote:
> William Leese wrote:
> > oh, i didn't backup /proc and /tmp because tar spewed out a few error
> > messages. but from what i can recall /proc is created by the kernel(?) and
> > for /tmp the directory just needs to be recreated, correct?
>
> You'd need to recreate the /proc directory; the system uses it as the
> mount point (of the proc filesystem). You can safely recreate the /tmp
> directory; its content is always deleted on reboot.
>
> BTW, I have all my partitions running on reiserfs; problem is, when the
> system booted up, / partition is always mounted read-only, so that the
> transaction log is always replayed on, well, read-only filesystem. I
> have done update-rc.d -f checkfs.sh remove, so that fsck wouldn't be
> done on the system. But that doesn't make the root partition mounted
> read-write on boot. The question is, how can I set the system so that
> the / partition mounted read-write?
Using LILO?
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
Lose the read-only directive.
Andrew
