On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 16:40 -0800, John Hardin wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jan 2015, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > if understand you correctly we agree that there is no reason /var can't be > > mounted read-only? > > Other than the historical practice that /var is intended to contain > varying data, and that implies read/write... > Years ago I moved my Apache and my PostgreSQL installations from /var to /home. Both are happy in their new location, so I can't see why the same trick wouldn't work equally well for MySQL. Pick any place you want, e.g. its own partition, then you can mount it read-only and know you can't upset anything else by accident.
I suspect that HR has done exactly that and symlinked the read-only partition into /var, which is another way to achieving the same end. The main reasons I moved Apache and PostgreSQL to /home was so I could back them up more easily and because /home has its own partition to make Fedora reinstalls/upgrades easier. Martin
