[lug] Linux Partition Sizes

[Nate Duehr]

On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 21:55, hirsch at zapmedia.com wrote:
> Bear Giles writes:
>  > > This made me
>  > > want to make future machines partition in such a way as to have / be
>  > > mounted ro.
>  > 
>  > Is that possible?  I looked at that briefly in the past, but ran into
>  > problems because you need to be able to write some files (e.g., /etc/mtab)
>  > before mounting additional filesystems.
> 
> I've done it, but it can be a little tricky.  At boot time I created a
> ram disk and made /etc/mtab be a link there.  Also, it is easier if
> you use devfs becaues the ownership of several devices gets changed at
> run time--this is especially true of some distributions like RedHat
> that change ownership of audio devices depending on who logs in to the
> console, but all linuxes will change ownership of ptys, I think.

BTW, you can change the behaviour of the console permissions on audio
devices in RedHat (and the other things it messes with) in
/etc/security/console.perms if you don't like the default behaviour for
some reason.

-- 
Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com