On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, George Lenzer wrote:
> I need to set up a Linux box for an application where power is unstable and may go
>out for long periods of time with no warning. The information on the filesystem will
>not need write access at all. Is it possible to set up a machine with read-only
>filesystems and no fsck after a reboot? Is this somthing that can be done by editin
>g "a few config files"?
>
> Thanks,
> E
>
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> George H. Lenzer
> Owner - D.L. Media
> Lakewood, Ohio 44107
>
You can edit /etc/fstab to mount all the file systems read only. You
will also have to kill syslog, or edit /etc/syslog.conf so that it only
logs messages to the console. You should also create a ramdisk for
/tmp, and posably another for /var/log, and symlink /var/tmp to /tmp.
There are a few files that need to be writable, but a ramdisk will take
care of this. You will lose things like the list of who has logged in
on power loss, as well as any log files, unless they are sent to another
machine.
Mikkel
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