On Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM Charles Curley <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 13:21:06 -0400
> Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > You typically want to mount / as read-only; while you want to mount
> > /var as read-write. Or some people want to mount the filesystem
> > read-only.
>
> Do you want to mount /root r-o? /etc? I think not.
>

With some handwaiving, yes.

Apple has been doing it for about a decade: About System Integrity
Protection on your Mac, <https://support.apple.com/en-us/102149>.


> For what the OP is up to, mounting the old file systems (on the HD)
> until he is satisfied he has everything working right is probably a
> good idea. But that's a different can of politicians.
>

Jeff

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