On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:37:19 +0700 (WIT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, this is my first question. I needed to mount root (/) with read only. > I've searched the openSUSE website and found how to do it. It worked fine, > but my touchscreen didn't. When I changed back to "rw" in fstab (and all > the files that I changed before), the touchscreen worked again. Anybody > know how to fix this? There are a lot of reasons you do not want to mount root as RO. Depending on your configuration, the directories, /var and /tmp must be read-write. /var contains subdirectories for logging, spooling, and other purposes.
The /dev directory also needs to be available because there are some dynamic devices, such as USB, CD. Normally, root is read-only in single-user mode (run level s or 1). Additionally, when root is read-only, you can't mount other file systems. As Theo points out, "mounting / ro is not how the FS is meant to be used" -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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