Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:58:46AM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote:
> Why would you want to mount /usr read-only ?
In addition to the security issues mentioned by other posters, for
those of us without a UPS mounting large partitions r-o can save waiting
for fsck to do its thing after a power flicker. It can be helpful to put
anything which doesn't change frequently such as mp3 collections, apt
archives, etc. on r-o partitions and only remount them r-w as needed.
your pal dave
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Dave Thayer
Denver, Colorado USA
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