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Re: read only root partition



On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 12:25:02PM +0200, Raphael Bauduin wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I want to install debian on a computer, where only the /var partition would 
> be writeable. Has anyone of you done it? Any advice?
> 
> The possible problems:
> 
[problems snipped]

why exactly do you want to do this?  its not really a trivial thing to
do as your finding out.  if its security your not really getting much
since root can just mount -o remount,rw / anyway.  

perhaps a better option is a ramdisk / 

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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