Dont forget samba shares...linux can be set up for that too !
Does single user mode allow mounting readonly ? I'll try that out.
So we have the solution, finally !! Seshan, to run fsck crash your linux
system, coz otherwise its purrfect !! :-)
Also to market myself :-), try reading my HOWTO on Diskless Booting at our
LUG site...i have talked about what partition needs to be booted in what
mode for what purposes
ciao,
Amit
Philip Tellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/21/99 02:59:21 AM
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Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Fsck
How would you keep it on another computer? You may have to your NFS in
that case. I'm not too sure about that. Exporting file systems read
write is pretty insecure. It means that anyone can remotely mount that
drive provided he has access to some account (even guest). I read
something about this at http://blacknemesis.org/ You should also check out
SATAN.
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True, it is not possible to mount / readonly. When drives are mounted,
mount writes to /etc/mtab There are also a lot of other status files that
are written to regularly.
you could have /var on a separate partition, but even that has to be
read-write because of /var/log and /var/lock
> wtmp, utmp all the time. You will have to boot linux from a floppy and
> mount the / partition on the harddisk as readonly to be able to do an
fsck.
You could boot single user and remount / readonly.
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> <joke>
> Another way to run fsck is to crash your system by just pressing the
reset
> switch which we are used to in windoze. Guaranteed fsck done !!!! ;-)
> </joke>
That explains it then. Windows crashes so that people can run scandisk.
Philip
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