On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Sreeji K Das wrote:
> Hi
>
> put the line
>
> read-only
>
> in your lilo.conf (normally /etc/lilo.conf) & then re-run lilo as:
> lilo
>
> Reboot the system & the error should vanish !
>
shouldnt it be the other way round, as his file system is being mounted ro
by default. On the oher hand keeping the root file system read only does
reduce file corruption possibilities ( power cuts and such things) and
also speeds up the boot process by avoiding the otherwise mandatory checks
on it.
However, I think the /tmp should be a seperate partition, otherwise X
wouldnt run as it wants to write some temporary files in this directory. X
is just an example many others do as well. A read-only mounted root with
/tmp in the root partition would not allow one to login through xdm.
please correct me if I am wrong
sreangsu
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