From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: When you boot into a sulogin mode such as when doing a "linux emergency" and run mount, the mounts are displayed with the read-write tag even though they are mounted read-only How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.LILO: linux emergency 2.mount 3. Actual Results: mounts show up as rw but are actually ro Expected Results: mount should reports mounts as ro Additional info:
This is because mount parses /etc/mtab [saved state] rather than /proc/mounts [current state]. To "fix" this, rm /etc/mtab ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab Please see the mount man page for details on whether or not it's a good idea (there are both good and bad points about doing this).