[Gllug] starting X

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:09:44AM +0100, Ian Northeast wrote:
> The same argument applies, to different degrees, to the others. You
> could argue that /usr should be reasonably static and therefore eligible
> for not mounting

Mounting /usr read-only can be a good extra security-precaution (though
making the machine a pain to update).  One for internet-facing machines.

> I always split off /tmp too, for the same reason.

Does the boot process always handle this gracefully?  I understood that
tmp would be in use before non-root partitions were mounted.

> 
> Is this not a good reason to partition?

Reckon.  But it would be nice if partitions were easily resizable, as I
understand FreeBSD slices are.

-- 
Bruce

Remember you're a Womble.
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