On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:58:46AM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > Why would you want to mount /usr read-only ?
In addition to the security issues mentioned by other posters, for those of us without a UPS mounting large partitions r-o can save waiting for fsck to do its thing after a power flicker. It can be helpful to put anything which doesn't change frequently such as mp3 collections, apt archives, etc. on r-o partitions and only remount them r-w as needed. your pal dave -- Dave Thayer Denver, Colorado USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
