On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 15:38 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Brett Serkez wrote: > > 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". > > What do you do with /etc/mtab - where the system clearly wants to write > into when you mount/unmount stuff? ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab There are some "gotchas" if you have some loopback mounts instituted by the mount command. Since /proc/mounts is a symlink to self-mounts, maybe pointing directly there would work too. > > Cheers, > > Ralph > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill