On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> Thsat strikes a cord to me. If I put /var,/tmp and /home on separate partitions
> and make /usr/local a link to somewhere else, then mounting / read only can
> avoid a lot of trouble and risk of crashing the filesystem.
>
> Am I right? ...Twice in last week my machine crashed due to power problem and
> that too during fsck. I must do something to take care of my HDD...
>
absolutely and as mukund does it, if one mounts the / on a (re-writable) CD
it will be pretty safe from the malicious buggers too. I was burned once
with the pwer cut too.
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