> > On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 13:13:38 +0200,
> > Stephan Niemz <st.n@gmx.net> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > I can't quite see this disaster, because under normal operation nothing
> > > tries to write to the root partition, except for /tmp.
> >
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 01:21:11PM +0200, Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr wrote:
> > every mount operation writes to /etc/mtab. and no, you can't move it to
> > another partition.
>
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:23:20 -0500, David Starner wrote:
> On my root partition, du mtab says it uses up 1K of space. ls -l /etc/mtab
> 347. So I can double mtab before it will try to allocate another sector. If
> you have enough things potentially mounted to fill 1K of space, then this
> might be a problem. Or if you use something like Reiserfs, which merges those
> small files. Otherwise, I don't see it as an issue.
Good point. Another point is that mounting and unmounting doesn't
happen very often "under normal operation", i. e. after booting has
finished. So maybe I really couldn't mount or unmount a CD or floppy while
/tmp is full. Okay, the situation changes if you're using an automounter. :-(
Anyways, this is getting offtopic since it wasn't about mounting root
read-only.
- Stephan.
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