Re: transferring boot

To: "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: transferring boot
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2025 13:21:06 -0400
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On Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM Roy J. Tellason, Sr. <roy@rtellason.com> wrote:

On Thursday 31 July 2025 03:25:23 pm Nicolas George wrote:
> On the other hand, /var on the same filesystem as the rest of / is not a
> good idea.
>

Why?

You typically want to mount / as read-only; while you want to mount /var as read-write. Or some people want to mount the filesystem read-only.

Jeff

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