Re: read-only root and usr partitions

1997-09-07 Thread joost witteveen
> It's best for now to mount root for write and /usr read-only. Under > normal operations I think the files in /etc are only written at > system start-up and shut-down (and during backups) and it might be > possible to have root read-only at other times. The _dates_ in /dev > are changed but the ac

Re: read-only root and usr partitions

1997-09-07 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > It's best for now to mount root for write and /usr read-only. Under > normal operations I think the files in /etc are only written at > system start-up and shut-down (and during backups) and it might be > possible to have root read-only at other times. Th

Re: read-only root and usr partitions

1997-09-07 Thread Bruce Perens
It's best for now to mount root for write and /usr read-only. Under normal operations I think the files in /etc are only written at system start-up and shut-down (and during backups) and it might be possible to have root read-only at other times. The _dates_ in /dev are changed but the actual files

Re: read-only root and usr partitions

1997-09-07 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
No. The FSSTND was designed to support a read-only /usr. The FHS is the next iteration of FSSTND, the Linux file system standard. -- Jean Pierre On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Paul J. Thompson wrote: > thanks for the response. it seems like quite an undertaking, however > -- a lot more files then i exp

Re: read-only root and usr partitions

1997-09-07 Thread Carey Evans
"Paul J. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > thanks for the response. it seems like quite an undertaking, however > -- a lot more files then i expected. maybe it really isn't a reality > to mount root read-only but a better idea to simply keep it very > regularly backed up. maybe, however,

Re: read-only root and usr partitions

1997-09-07 Thread Paul J. Thompson
Jean Pierre, thanks for the response. it seems like quite an undertaking, however -- a lot more files then i expected. maybe it really isn't a reality to mount root read-only but a better idea to simply keep it very regularly backed up. maybe, however, usr can still be mounted read-only. do y

Re: read-only root and usr partitions

1997-09-07 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Paul J. Thompson wrote: > i know of only one file specifically that is written to on those two > partitions: /etc/mtab. is this the only one? if not, what are the > others? if so, where is the proper place to repartition it so i can > mount root and usr read-only? I'm going