On Thu 06 Mar 2014 at 01:21:03 +0000, Amit wrote: > I need cups, so is there a way around this? This doesn't answer your question but I have a spare Wheezy with separate /, /home, and /var. I installed systemd, made the rootfs ro in fstab and booted with init=/lib/systemd/systemd. The rootfs was mounted ro. cupsd is also running.