in the /etc/fstab define ro in the permissions field of the entry where the / partition is defined ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brett Serkez" <bserkez at gmail.com> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 5:58 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] read only root file system > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us> wrote: > > I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition. > > Any recommendations? > > You'll need to break out your hard drive into multiple partitions, as > there are certain portions of the file system that need to be writable > such as /var and /home. I setup systems in this manner to make them > more difficult to subvert, I'd suggestion searching for topics such as > "linux file system hardening". > > When you do need to do maintenance, such as package management, you'll > need to remount the root file system as writable which will likely > require a reboot. > > Brett > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >