Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:35:41 -0700 From: Scott Schappell <archon@silvertree.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remounting a drive as read/write crashes the system and no dmesg.boot Message-ID: <88C90965-7961-456A-9FDF-5C0128012D2D@silvertree.org> In-Reply-To: <ade45ae90908181311w1c34218as5a2e13bf6cba3634@mail.gmail.com> References: <00B06063-9872-4ACE-8767-1221C22E33EE@silvertree.org> <ade45ae90908181311w1c34218as5a2e13bf6cba3634@mail.gmail.com>
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On Aug 18, 2009, at 13:11:10, Tim Judd wrote: > On my CF-based devices (firewalls.. nagios boxes, etc), I run: > > mount -uw / > to update the mount (not mount again) the filesystem. If you're > trying to mount again, I could understand why the box panics. > > > Try in your script: > mount -u -w /backups > or shorter by a little: > mount -uw /backups > > do your stuff, then go back to read-only: > mount -ur /backups > > > HTH We have a winner. I am sheepish in admitting I didn't read the man page well enough for mount. Thanks for the answer! Scott
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