On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > > On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > > > > > Which directorys could be set up read only and which have to be writable? > > > > > Also /var/run, /var/lock, and /. / is very close to being able to be > > mounted read only with only a few files being written in /etc. The > > main problem is that several file get create/modified in /dev at boot. > > Do you mean by /. the current directory of root? Why does that need to > be writable?
The root directory. It needs to be writable since /dev must be writable. /dev cannot be on a separate partition since files from /dev are required when booting the system. Someone a while back had developed a ram filesystem based approach to have a writable /dev until after boot was completed. -- Jean Pierre -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
