|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...
|>
You will have to mount /dev as rw , because login will change the
permission of tty in /dev directory.
Well I already have server made exactly as above and for last 3 years, never
had a fsck.
Thanks to Electricity Board and my peon, who never bother to shutdown the
sever with three finger salute ;-))
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