Re: Question about hard disk partition strategy for debian
> "R. Armiento" <reply-debian-05@armiento.net> writes:
>>The reason to put /usr on an own partition would be that IF the
>>semi-frequent changes of this partition somehow would screw up the
>>filesystem, you could still bring your system up in a semi-useful state
>>using only / and repair things.
>
Martin Dickopp wrote:
> IMHO, the main reason for having /usr on a separate partition is that
> it can be mounted read-only.
Good point. But if you have put everything else that requires write
access in separate partitions (eg., /var, /tmp) perhaps one can mount
the whole '/' filesystem read-only? I have never tried that, but if you
mount /usr read-only to protect your binaries, one would think that you
should want to protect your /bin and /sbin binaries in a similar way?
//Rickard
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