I'll have to give this a try. Right now, I am just remounting / read-only after boot as part of my /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts. I'd prefer to eliminate all writes, though. <sigh> I suppose this means I'm going to have to repartition the microdrive again. /usr keeps getting smaller and smaller.
Thanks for the help, Seth Henry On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "J. Seth Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The trick is, if I make / read-only, I run into problems with /dev. During > > boot, I get numerous error messages - and things don't seem to work quite > > right. Is there a way to mount / read-only, while maintaining a working > > /dev? Can /dev be mounted from another filesystem - or, preferably (since > > the OS is already running) be linked to, say, /usr/dev? > > I think you still need the devices on the root filesystem, even if you > later mount something else over the directory. That's because there's > a chicken and egg problem -- they need to be there for the other > filesystems to be mounted in the first place. So the symlink approach > won't work, but mounting it on top of /dev from elsewhere would work. > > I believe the typical approach on diskless machines is to put it into > an mfs, but you'd have to doublecheck the documentation on it. > > You could also use devfs, of course, but I'm not sure, offhand, how > well that worked before 5.x. > > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
