Re: /etc writeable [was: etc writeable blah]

From: Alvin Oga (aoga_at_ns.Linux-Consulting.com)
Date: 12/21/04

  • Next message: William Ballard: "Re: /etc writeable [was: etc writeable blah]" 
    Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 20:34:10 -0800 (PST)
To: William Ballard <nospam_40811@alltel.net>

    On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote:

    > > most everything under /var/log /var/spool /var/run /var/tmp
    >
    > My bad. I should have said "what other files in /etc

    think you did say /etc ... but i added the other junk about /var
    and gazillion other places

    > need to be writeable."

    not many files if you get rid of /var

    > BootCD already cleans /var and /tmp and
    > they use < 200K of the ramfile at boot.

    200K is nice and small..

    1.2MB floppy or less is the smallest boot i've seen
    that blows up into a 8MB system running in /dev/ram or /dev/loop

    > BTW, I ran "find /etc -mmin -10" and got:
    > mtab

    mtab is not needed ... it'd still mount afaik
            mount -n ....

    >, motd,

    if space and mem is an issue, motd is bells & whistles
    for gigb-byte sized installs

    > network/, network/ifstate

    i dont use dhcp, but if its config'd for dhcp,
    does the system write to /etc or just use it in memory ?

    > I also added fstab and hostname as these will be
    > convenient to edit.

    fstab is read only
    hostname is read only unless you allow dhcp to overwrite it
    every time

    c ya
    alvin 

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