On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Or a bind-mount from /var/media or such... I wonder though shouldn't it be > implemented in initscripts similar to /tmp? Because currently enabling > read-only / will require adding a /media stanza to fstab. It would be a reasonable thing to do, sure (mounting a tmpfs). If you post a patch to arch-projects we can discuss it :-) It should be noted that initscripts does not mount anything to /tmp by default, so an fstab entry is needed for this too if you want ro root. -t