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readonly initial mounting
Name: skiff Date: July 16, 2002 at 15:34:03 Pacific
Comment:
Hey, I was wondering if someone could tell me where RedHat Linux 7.1 mounts the harddrive file systems on startup... I'm assuming it's in some init or rc file but I can't find it. I'm trying to make it so that I can mount my entire hard drive (except swap space) as readonly and then I can just poweroff instead of doing a complete shutdown. Thanks for the help
Name: Trip Date: July 16, 2002 at 17:35:53 Pacific
Reply:
/etc/fstab
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Response Number 2
Name: Harrie Date: July 17, 2002 at 05:08:02 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Skiff,
Did you think about the files in "/var"? Mounting /var read-only will give you all sorts of other problems (if not solved in another way).
Also, your shell's history file won't be updated, so recalling your commands is not possible that way (unless you do it in a RAM disk or something like that).
And what good is a /home when one cann't write to it?
Personnaly I think you should stick with "shutdown -h 0".
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