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| author | Karel Zak | 2009-01-06 15:20:37 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2009-01-06 15:20:37 +0100 |
| commit | f0daecf3c52a249bd244890ed53c50e165f2793f (patch) | |
| tree | 152b724baaf483d2baa66da42d54b37dd4174697 /mount/mount.8 | |
| parent | mount: add info about semantics of read-only mount to mount.8 (diff) | |
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mount: suggest to use blockdev --setro rather than losetup
Thanks to Christoph Hellwig.
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/mount/mount.8 b/mount/mount.8 index bbbbd33a8..a4d20ac00 100644 --- a/mount/mount.8 +++ b/mount/mount.8 @@ -428,8 +428,8 @@ Mount the file system read-only. A synonym is Note that, depending on the filesystem type, state and kernel behavior, the system may still write to the device. For example, Ext3 will replay its journal if the filesystem is dirty. To prevent this kind of write access, you may want -to map the device through a read-only loop device, see command -.BR losetup (8). +to set the block device to read-only mode, see command +.BR blockdev (8). .TP .B \-w Mount the file system read/write. This is the default. A synonym is |