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Where can I find the meaning of "ro"?

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I'm having trouble booting my netbook so I'm looking at the grub boot parameters.

I know what splash, quite and vt.handoff=7 do. However I can't find any documentation anywhere about what ro does and why it's there, even though it appears in most examples of grub start up code.

Where can I find documentation about ro?

I assume it means read only. Though docs would ease my mind.

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answered 3 Years ago ateact · Accepted Answer

ro means 'mount the file system as read-only'.

the reason this is done is because fsck (the file system checker) should never be run on a read/write file system.

it's a default for a very good reason, and i would be very wary of changing it.