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Shortening the rope (around RH's neck)Shortening the rope (around RH's neck)Posted Apr 5, 2009 17:11 UTC (Sun) by JoeF (subscriber, #4486)In reply to: Shortening the rope (around RH's neck) by fmarier Parent article: Shortening the rope
Why not mount /, /bin,... read-only?
Keep everything you need to write to, e.g., /tmp, /var, on separate filesystems. That's what I do, and it works nicely. Of course, you could still end up deleting your home directory...
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Shortening the rope (around RH's neck) Posted Apr 7, 2009 13:44 UTC (Tue) by hmh (subscriber, #3838) [Link]
You need /etc to be RW, and you need that very early in the boot sequence, so it traditionally has to be inside /. That's the only thing that gets in the way of mounting / RO.
accidental deletion and read-only root filesystem Posted Apr 9, 2009 23:37 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] You do have to use a rather different filesystem layout than what comes with conventional Linux to have a read-only root filesystem. I've been doing it for years, though. Sometimes it's as easy as having symbolic links from the root filesystem to a read/write filesystem, but other times it's as hard as having to modify a program to eliminate a hardcoded file name.I also do daily automated backups. Deleting my home directory wouldn't be particularly severe for me.
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