"R. Armiento" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin Dickopp wrote: >> IMHO, the main reason for having /usr on a separate partition is that >> it can be mounted read-only. > > Good point. But if you have put everything else that requires write > access in separate partitions (eg., /var, /tmp) perhaps one can mount > the whole '/' filesystem read-only?
I think there were attempts to make / read-only mountable, but I don't know what the current status is. There are some files on / which are written to during normal operations, e.g. /etc/mtab, but it should usually be possible to create them in /dev/shm or /var/run and symlink from /etc. > I have never tried that, but if you mount /usr read-only to protect > your binaries, one would think that you should want to protect your > /bin and /sbin binaries in a similar way? Indeed. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
