Howdy group! I was wondering how I'm supposed to remount root readonly. From what I can figure I'm supposed to issue the command "mount -o remount,ro /", but I only get a "mount: / is busy" message. I've tried it without the comma between remount and ro, and it seems to go through okay, but I'm not 100% sure that it's now read-only. How can I check on this? If I just type mount, I see all the options that are given in my fstab, but not what the current status is (rw or ro) on any given mount point. If it helps, I was thinking it would be best to make a backup of / with it as ro so that no data is changed during the backup process and keep from corrupting any data. (Also, a particular program I want to try out [partimage] requires it to be mounted ro.)
Thanks for any help! Jeremy
