&gt; It should be mounted rw because existing userspace expects it to be rw.<p>Can you explain this a bit? I&#x27;m not familiar with the particulars of firmware, but I&#x27;m having a hard time imagining why any userspace program would expect a firmware partition to be writable. Even if there are any, certainly I&#x27;d have a hard time believing that they would need it to be mounted and writable <i>all the time</i>.