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# Creating the mountfs script

A new file `/etc/init.d/mountfs` is created containing the following:

`cat > mountfs << "EOF"`
#!/bin/sh
# Begin /etc/init.d/mountfs
#
# Include the functions declared in the /etc/init.d/functions file
#
source /etc/init.d/functions
case "$1" in
start)
#
# Remount the root partition in read-write mode. -n tells mount
# not to
# write to the /etc/mtab file (because it can't do this. The
# root
# partition is most likely still mounted in read-only mode
#
echo -n "Remounting root file system in read-write mode..."
/bin/mount -n -o remount,rw /
evaluate_retval
#
# First empty the /etc/mtab file. Then remount root partition
# in read-write
# mode again but pass -f to mount. This way mount does
# everything
# except the mount itself. This is needed for it to write to the
# mtab
# file which contains a list of currently mounted file systems.
#
echo > /etc/mtab
/bin/mount -f -o remount,rw /
#
# Remove the possible /fastboot and /forcefsck files. they are
# only
# supposed to be used during the next reboot's checkfs which just
# happened. If you want to fastboot or forcefsck again you'll
# have to
# recreate the files
#
/bin/rm -f /fastboot /forcefsck
#
# Walk through /etc/fstab and mount all file systems that don't
# have the noauto option set in the fs_mntops field (the 4th
# field.
# See man fstab for more info)
#
echo -n "Mounting other file systems..."
/bin/mount -a
evaluate_retval
;;
stop)
#
# Deactivate all the swap partitions
#
echo -n "Deactivating swap..."
/sbin/swapoff -a
evaluate_retval
#
# And unmount all the file systems, mounting the root file
# system
# read-only (all are unmounted but because root can't be
# unmounted
# at this point mount will automatically mount it read-only
# which
# is what supposed to happen. This way no data can be written
# anymore from disk)
#
echo -n "Unmounting file systems..."
/bin/umount -a -r
evaluate_retval
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
exit 1
;;
esac
# End /etc/init.d/mountfs
`EOF`

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