On 4/14/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Me, I just lurk here but: > 1) if having / ro would actually improve security, > they would have done so long ago. > 2) There are probably essential reasons why / cannot be read-only > on a useable system. Involving /etc, maybe.
it causes problems unless you hack up /etc/rc in a big way. I had boxen i did this on - firewalls with filesystems on CF so fsck was a pain - but there were a lot of changes needed. In the end, it didn't win me enough, so I just went back to rw / ... > > When I ran ls the 'test' file was there. I mean, the ro flag that I > > had added to my root partition had no effect. Has anyone ever faced > > this? read /etc/rc. -- GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?
