From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 6:23: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B87D614BEF for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 06:23:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 126Doa-000FUD-00; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:23:00 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA66501; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:23:00 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:23:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: Alwyn Schoeman , Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: window manager question In-Reply-To: <20000106034648.A3659@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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