From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 5: 4: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9D6437B42C for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 05:04:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13Rvjp-000CdP-00; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:04:05 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA51569; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:04:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:04:04 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: read only / filesystem Message-ID: <20000824130404.A51338@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20000824002732.A45983@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000824101341.D66923@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000824101341.D66923@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:13:41AM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:13:41AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: | On Thursday, 24 August 2000 at 0:27:32 +0100, j mckitrick wrote: | > | > i've decided so try a suggestion i heard here: | > i'm going to make / read only. when i booted, i saw a bunch of messages | > about / being read only. is there anything i need to do special to prevent | > problems from this setting? | | Obviously. Read the messages, decide what to do, and do it. i didn't want to break anything in the process. the commands causing the messages must be there for a reason. also, are there any benefits to doing this, or is the noatime option good enough? jcm -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message