read-only root partition?
Paul Civati
paul at xciv.org
Mon Feb 25 17:12:53 GMT 2002
"Clark C . Evans" <cce at clarkevans.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if it is possible to have a read-only
> root partition? If there are any tricks involved?
Presuming that your /var is totally separate, because lots of things will
want to write to files in /var/log and /var/run, yes mostly this will work
okay except for a few things.
- /etc/motd gets updated at boot time, but you can turn that off in rc.conf
- if you are using /etc/fbtab then /dev/console won't update, there may
be other /dev issues
- if you are using DHCP then dhclient will want to update /etc/resolv.conf
There may be other issues, but these are the main ones I've found.
-Paul-
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