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Date:      Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:28:52 +0100
From:      Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>
To:        Julio Merino <juli@merino.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mounting /usr read-only
Message-ID:  <20010911142852.A22728@shaft.techsupport.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010911124523.A8587@juli.local>; from juli@merino.net on Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 12:45:24PM %2B0200
References:  <20010911124523.A8587@juli.local>

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* Julio Merino <juli@merino.net> [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.

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