Re: Increasing space under an existing directory

From: Benedict Verheyen (benedict.verheyen_at_sjki.be)
Date: 01/31/05

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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, Bob Alexander <bob@ngi.it>

    Bob Alexander wrote:

    > Benedict Verheyen wrote:
    >
    >> Maybe not for a home 'puter but isn't putting /usr on a seperate
    >> partition prefered for a server?
    >> You can then mount the partition read only. That's one of the
    >> benefits i can think of.
    >>
    >
    > Benedict,
    > what you say in principle is very true.
    >
    > Did you actually try it on a Debian system ?
    >
    > Not 100% sure but IIRC I did and it does NOT work :)
    >
    > Bob

    It works on my system:
    mount -o remount,ro /usr
    cd /usr
    touch test
    touch: cannot touch `test': Read-only file system

    Best is to change this in /etc/fstab and then add this to /etc/apt/apt.conf
       DPkg {
                // Auto re-mounting of a readonly /usr
             Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";};
             Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount,ro /usr";};
       }

    Apparently this doesn't always work:
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/11/msg00212.html

    Regards,
    Benedict 

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