Re: Which directorys should be read only vs. writable.

[Henry Hollenberg <speed@barney.iamerica.net>]

	Henry Hollenberg     speed@barney.iamerica.net 


On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
> 
> > Which directorys could be set up read only and which have to be writable?
> > 
> > I guess /var/spool, /var/tmp and /usr/spool should be mounted writable, 
> > and /home I guess too.  Can the rest be mounted read only?  (Reinforced by
> > setting the jumper on the disk to read only!).  Will this screw up fsck?
> 
> Also /var/run, /var/lock, and /.  / is very close to being able to be
> mounted read only with only a few files being written in /etc.  The
> main problem is that several file get create/modified in /dev at boot.

Do you mean by /. the current directory of root?  Why does that need to
be writable?


So we have:

/var/lock
/var/run
/var/spool
/var/tmp
/usr/spool
/usr/tmp

So maybe mount


/var on one partition on the writable disk

and

/usr/spool on a second partition on the writable disk
/usr/tmp  on a third partition on the writable disk

Then the rest "/" goes on the read-only disk.

Anything else?

hgh




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