On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 22:10 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 02:41:17PM +0100, Karthik wrote:
> > mounting a "hibernated" partition is dangerous (even if mounted read
> > only).
> Why can it be dangerous if it doesn't change it?
Some filesystems change the filesystem (reply the journal) even if told
to mount a filesystem read only. That's why grub reads the partition
directly. It's also why TuxOnIce stores device major/minor numbers and
sector numbers - we access the data without using the filesystem too.
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