Getting rid of /usr for F12?

Fri Apr 17 23:22:30 UTC 2009

On Fri, 17.04.09 18:16, Chris Adams (cmadams at hiwaay.net) wrote:

> 
> Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> said:
> > Mounting /etc read-only makes no sense at all, config files are designed to
> > be writable.
> 
> Now, if initrd could handle /etc being on a separate filesystem, that
> would be cool.  I might would leave /usr on / (mounted ro) if that were
> the case (although that wouldn't help with the case I recently had where
> /usr was corrupted but I still booted "emergency" mode to restore from
> tape).

It doesn't make sense to have /etc/ a seperate parition from /.

A sensible design would be to have / as a whole should be ro. And then
/home, /var, /tmp mounted rw.

Lennart

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