From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 11 6:32:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shaft.techsupport.co.uk (shaft.techsupport.co.uk [212.250.77.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03E5737B407 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 06:32:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rasputin by shaft.techsupport.co.uk with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15gnau-0005uo-00; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:28:52 +0100 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:28:52 +0100 From: Rasputin To: Julio Merino Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting /usr read-only Message-ID: <20010911142852.A22728@shaft.techsupport.co.uk> Reply-To: Rasputin References: <20010911124523.A8587@juli.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010911124523.A8587@juli.local>; from juli@merino.net on Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 12:45:24PM +0200 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 * Julio Merino [010911 11:40]: > 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? Symlinks would fix both of these. -- No violence, gentlemen -- no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture! -- Sherlock Holmes Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns :: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message