From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 11 3:38:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from yuha.menta.net (yuha.menta.net [212.78.128.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 583FF37B406 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 03:38:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gibson.menta.net ([212.78.128.22]) by yuha.menta.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GJHUYZ01.3XQ for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:40:11 +0200 Received: from juli.local ([62.57.116.167]) by gibson.menta.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GJHUPZ00.BS7 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:34:47 +0200 Received: from juli by juli.local with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15gl2i-0002F2-00 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:45:24 +0200 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:45:24 +0200 From: Julio Merino To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Mounting /usr read-only Message-ID: <20010911124523.A8587@juli.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD juli.local 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I would like to mount /usr read-only. I have been trying it, but I have found some weird things which avoid me to mount it ro. First of all, I'm running xfstt. So, with the /usr mounted ro, it can't initialize its font database each time I boot up the computer. Why it does not place its database information in /var, like some other systems do (i.e. Debian)? Any good solution? And the second problem I've seen with this is the /usr/compat/linux/etc directory, which is also read on startup, and it fails for the same reason. Any idea about this? Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message