[plug] Root partition read-only?

[Simon.Scott at flexiplan.com]

Hi all

I recently installed Mandrake 8.1, and setup my partitions as follows (from
memory):

/home reiserfs
/var reiserfs
/boot ext2, read only
/usr ext2, read only
/ ext2, read only
/root, ext2, read-only

The idea being that /tmp and /usr/tmp are links to /var/tmp, and I would remount
everything rw to install packages

However

For some reason, even though / is ro in fstab, it still mounts it rw.

This means that on power out etc, it still fscks / (which includes /lib) which
takes a while

Does anyone know why / cant be mounted ro, or if in fact it can be and Im doing
it wrong?

I cant see any reason for it, maybe it is in the init scripts somewhere?


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