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Root file system is mounted read-only on boot on Gentoo Linux

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Mar 15, 202614570 views
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I am using Gentoo Linux and for a while now, the root file system is mounted read-only on booting. For obvious reasons, this is quite annoying as most services do not start up correctly (I do not use a separate file system for /var). After the system is up, I have to log in, remount the root file s…

Error Output

EXT3-fs (sda5): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode</code>  
EXT3-fs (sda5): using internal journal

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Fix for: Root file system is mounted read-only on boot on Gentoo Linux

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The solution for the problem is easier than expected. Appearantly in baselayout 2, there is a service called that just remounts the root file-system read-write. The reason why I didn’t have this service in my boot runlevel is probably that I have up…

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