Re: /etc writeable [was: etc writeable blah]
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote:
> > most everything under /var/log /var/spool /var/run /var/tmp
>
> My bad. I should have said "what other files in /etc
think you did say /etc ... but i added the other junk about /var
and gazillion other places
> need to be writeable."
not many files if you get rid of /var
> BootCD already cleans /var and /tmp and
> they use < 200K of the ramfile at boot.
200K is nice and small..
1.2MB floppy or less is the smallest boot i've seen
that blows up into a 8MB system running in /dev/ram or /dev/loop
> BTW, I ran "find /etc -mmin -10" and got:
> mtab
mtab is not needed ... it'd still mount afaik
mount -n ....
>, motd,
if space and mem is an issue, motd is bells & whistles
for gigb-byte sized installs
> network/, network/ifstate
i dont use dhcp, but if its config'd for dhcp,
does the system write to /etc or just use it in memory ?
> I also added fstab and hostname as these will be
> convenient to edit.
fstab is read only
hostname is read only unless you allow dhcp to overwrite it
every time
c ya
alvin
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