Am 01.07.2012 19:08, schrieb Joe Zeff: > On 07/01/2012 10:01 AM, John Wendel wrote: >> Is it possible to setup Fedora, using Fedora provided tools/software, >> with a read-only root partition? >> >> There's an ancient wiki entry from the FC6 days that indicates that some >> work was done, but I would assume that this depended on the SysV init >> system. I've haven't seen any mention of read-only root setup with systemd. >> >> Any clues would be greatly appreciated. >> > > If I'm not mistaken, /var needs to be on that partition and needs to be writable. it is not uncommon to have /var on a own partition > If so, then you can't have a > read-only root partition. it works, but be really carefull > And, just so we all know where we're going here, why would you want to? in theory more security imagine a root-exploit changing a system binary much more difficult if the rootfs is readonly
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