Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:23:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: Alwyn Schoeman <alwyns@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: window manager question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001061420140.66464-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20000106034648.A3659@hades.hell.gr>
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >If you keep your /var, /usr and /tmp directories on other partitions, >making sure that nobody writes to your / filesystem is essentially the >first step towards mounting / as read-only. The `noatime' option in >/etc/fstab is the next Good Thing(TM) usually. Let's see.. what do we need writes to / for... kernel compiles... and that's all i can think of. I moved my maintenance scripts to /usr/local/sbin, per sheldon's suggestion. I guess kernel compiles is all i need write access for. As of now, / is mounted noatimes.. maybe it's time to go R-only... except it's 80 megs (i used to have /var and /tmp there until i moved them to /usr) so i have lots of wasted space. -=> jm <=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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