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Re: read-only file system



On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote:

> >    mount
>  /dev/sda11 on /usr type ext2 (ro)
> 
> > To change to read/write see the man page for mount.
> did it, now i have remounted. I should check fstab file
> before I down the machine just to make sure it is not
> mounted with 'ro' again.

Actually, I would encourage you to keep this ro.  There's typically
no reason to write into /usr except when installing new
packages.  This provides some extra security and system consistency.

-- 
Jean Pierre



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