On 2012/07/01 10:25, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 01.07.2012 19:23, schrieb John Wendel:
> On 07/01/2012 10:11 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>> Am 01.07.2012 19:08, schrieb Joe Zeff:
>>> On 07/01/2012 10:01 AM, John Wendel wrote:
>>>> Is it possible to setup Fedora, using Fedora provided tools/software,
>>>> with a read-only root partition?
>>>>
>>>> There's an ancient wiki entry from the FC6 days that indicates that
some
>>>> work was done, but I would assume that this depended on the SysV init
>>>> system. I've haven't seen any mention of read-only root setup
with systemd.
>>>>
>>>> Any clues would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>> If I'm not mistaken, /var needs to be on that partition and needs to be
writable.
>> it is not uncommon to have /var on a own partition
>>
>>> If so, then you can't have a
>>> read-only root partition.
>> it works, but be really carefull
>>
>>> And, just so we all know where we're going here, why would you want to?
>> in theory more security
>>
>> imagine a root-exploit changing a system binary
>> much more difficult if the rootfs is readonly
>>
> Extra security is certainly a plus. My main reason for wanting to run a read-only
root it to avoid wearing out the
> consumer grade compact flash card that I'm using as my root device (yes, I'm
cheap)
even if it works - you have ALWAYS to remember remount it rw
on any yum-update - i personally would not do it because
of some hardware
The equivalent is done with live CDs you know.
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