Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 17:16:14 BST From: Michael Searle <searle@longacre.demon.co.uk> To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Async/ro partitions, command timer Message-ID: <mE463D07C@longacre.demon.co.uk>
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My system has /usr, /home, /var and / partitions, set up in the standard way except for /tmp being linked to /var/rtmp (not /var/tmp, so that isn't cleared at boot.) What I want to do is mount / and maybe /usr read-only, to reduce the chance of FS damage when crashing, and mount /var async for better speed with temporary files. Are there any problems with this? (as in things that have to be r/w in / or /usr. I know async is less reliable, which is why I only want to do it to /var, not /home.) I can mount read-only, but how exactly do I mount async? Also, is there some way of running timed commands (in a similar way to cron), but if at the time specified FreeBSD is not running, then the command will be run at boot time? (My system is dual-boot, and could be in DOS at any given time. It is never running at all overnight when cron looks for /etc/*ly.) It wouldn't matter if this only ran once, at boot, rather than every minute, as it would only be used for things like /etc/*ly and I boot at least once every day. At the moment, I usually forget about them for a long time, then do /etc/daily; /etc/weekly; /etc/monthly, which isn't very useful. The only other way without this timer would be to run all three at boot, which would be slow. -- Michael Searle - searle@longacre.demon.co.uk
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