Am 01.07.2012 19:23, schrieb John Wendel: > On 07/01/2012 10:11 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> 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 >> > Extra security is certainly a plus. My main reason for wanting to run a read-only root it to avoid wearing out the > consumer grade compact flash card that I'm using as my root device (yes, I'm cheap) even if it works - you have ALWAYS to remember remount it rw on any yum-update - i personally would not do it because of some hardware
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