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accidental deletion and read-only root filesystem

accidental deletion and read-only root filesystem

Posted Apr 9, 2009 23:37 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: Shortening the rope (around RH's neck) by hmh
Parent article: Shortening the rope

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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