Anil Gupte wrote:
BlankNeed help and advice.
This system happens to be in a place where there are frequent power
losses. So, my plan is to have a small root partition (say about
100MB), and make it a read-only partition. This way, there will be
no corruption on constant reboots. The apps, logs etc will be on a
separate partition.
Look at the installation manual, in particular:
http://www.de.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s05.html.en
http://www.de.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs02.html.en
Also read the reminder of appendix B.
/etc has to be a subdirectory of / *and* /etc has to be writable on boot
(/etc/mtab contains mount information). This renders your scenario very
difficult, if not impossible to achieve.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Read-only_root_filesystem
lists some suggestions for gentoo.
I suggest, like another poster, to use a journaling fs like ext3 as your
root partition.
IIRC /usr could be turned in a read-only partition, since it contains
only static information and has to be mounted rw only on software upgrades.
HTH,
Johannes
PS: Don't attach unnecessary gifs to your mails.
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