On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 11:11:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > > > > If this directory is mounted readonly it will fail, I think is a common > > practice to have /etc readonly when an installation is stable (no more > > software updates, etc) to avoid hard disk corruption in one of the most > > important system directories... > > [...] > > That tends to imply that /etc could be mounted read-only. > however... mtab is writeable and needs to be? hmmm > (that is mentioned in the fsstnd also)... > > > > Should this be written to /var/<something>? > > I tend to agree....having read the fsstnd, I tend to think mtab should be > moved there as well. It seems to be the intention of it to move > (ideally) everything which NEEDS to be writable for the system to function > to /var
Wouldn't it work if /etc/mtab were a link to, say, /var/[...]/mtab (and there's also /etc/rmtab). > > I find it curious that this was not also moved. Also to be noted > that /etc contains files (like fstab) which are NEEDED for boot and > to even mount other file systems...so it MUST be part of > the root partition and can not be on a partition of its own > (unless...it existed and had enough files to boot...then got > overlayed with a larger partition...seems to defeat the purpose though) Well, not if the purpose is a read-only /etc partition. Hey, what about /setc and /etc like /sbin and /bin ! > > and teh root partition must be mounted read-write. Yes but not much changes there, does it? At boot time, /dev changed, /etc had motd and ioctl.save updated, and /proc was mounted. That's about it if you set up links for mounting floppies and so on (I don't). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
