Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody
"S.Salman Ahmed" <ssahmed@pathcom.com> writes:
> >>>>> "OM" == Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf@epkowa.co.jp> writes:
> >> split /usr amd /usr/local if they're just partitions on the same
> >> drive? > I could see doing that if they were on seperate disks
> >> to gain a little bump > in access speed.
> >>
> >> so if you decide to reinstall the OS clean you can run mkfs on /
> >> /usr /var and any /tmps without losing locally compiled software
> >> and user home directories (/home)
> OM> Another reason would be if you wanted to mount /usr read-only
> OM> but not /usr/local.
> OM>
>
> Why would you want to mount /usr read-only ?
As others have mentioned already: a little bit of extra protection
against root shooting itself in the foot while allowing 'staff' to
play around in /usr/local nevertheless.
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Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
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