Re: [gentoo-user] Read only root

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 12, 2003 01:36 pm, Steven Elling wrote: > If util-linux and/or the kernel were modified to get all the information on > the mounts in /proc/mounts, /etc/mtab would be unnecessary. And, if > /etc/mtab was needed by something, a symbolic link could be created for > backward compatibility. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Read only root

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Richardson
On August 9, 2003 07:22 am, Gareth Jones wrote: > I would like to make root read only, but it seems that this is not > possible. I've put /var, /home, /tmp and /usr one different file systems, > and that works ok - but gentoo writes to /etc during bootup. I can't put > /etc on a separate file syste

Re: [gentoo-user] Read only root

2003-08-14 Thread Steven Elling
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 13:08, Brian Richardson wrote: > On August 9, 2003 07:22 am, Gareth Jones wrote: > > I would like to make root read only, but it seems that this is not > > possible. I've put /var, /home, /tmp and /usr one different file > > systems, and that works ok - but gentoo writes t

[gentoo-user] Read only root

2003-08-10 Thread Gareth Jones
Someone else has mentioned trashing their root file system. I did this recently:-(. I would like to make root read only, but it seems that this is not possible. I've put /var, /home, /tmp and /usr one different file systems, and that works ok - but gentoo writes to /etc during bootup. I can't