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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 <=-





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