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From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To: roland Mathieu <roland.mathieu@free.fr>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Mount "/" read-only.
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, roland Mathieu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've got a FreeBSD 4.7 box with 4 differents partitions: "/", "/var", "/tmp" and
> "/home", and the configuration is finish. Is it possible to mount "/"
> read-only without troubles ?

No. and yes :)

You can, but you can't "without problems'

Some of the problems you'll get:

* You can't change passwords.
* You can't update or replace binaries in case of  a bug/security problem
* You can't add/remove users/groups
* You can't change the configuration if you need to.


			Fer

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> roland.
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