From owner-freebsd-security Fri Feb 9 23:51:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from hal9000.bsdonline.org (ffaxvawx3-4-047.cox.rr.com [24.168.203.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8871C37B401 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 23:50:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by hal9000.bsdonline.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D15D31FBB; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 02:50:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 02:50:51 -0500 From: Andrew J Caines To: "Geoffrey T. Falk" Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Read-Only Partitions Again (was Re: Hi) Message-ID: <20010210025051.H18191@hal9000.bsdonline.org> Reply-To: Andrew J Caines Mail-Followup-To: "Geoffrey T. Falk" , security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010208230315.R91447@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> <200102100705.AAA00633@h-209-91-79-2.gen.cadvision.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102100705.AAA00633@h-209-91-79-2.gen.cadvision.com>; from gtf@cirp.org on Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 12:05:41AM -0700 Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Geoffrey, > And /tmp. Isn't there some "standard" way to make it a ramdisk (a la > Solaris)? Does.. # egrep /tmp /etc/fstab /dev/ad0s1b /tmp mfs rw,noatime,-s=32768 0 0 ..count as "standard"? It's not like standard (as in default) Solaris insofar as I don't give away all my VM to the users for file storage, but then I don't do that in Solaris either. That reminds me of an amusing exchange with a Lotus Notes expert who insisted he needed a two gigabyte filesystem on /tmp, but that's for another forum. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@altavista.net | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message