Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:31:02PM +0800, Feizhou wrote: > >>2) Major: No /var partition which means it comes under /. I suggest >>separating /var from / since /var will hold your mail queue. If >>possible, get / to the state where it is mounted read only. > > > Having /etc readonly is kind of tricky. Are you sure that is a good > idea ? > Well, i guess if the system disk goes, there is not much point... To avoid filesystem errors on / however makes it worthwhile I hope...a read-only / (etc, bin, sbin, lib) would never suffer from filesystem errors due to a crash...disk errors yes but then that can be handled by RAID.