[plug] Root partition read-only?

[Leon Brooks]

On Wednesday 31 October 2001 01:24 pm, Simon.Scott at flexiplan.com wrote:
> I [...] setup my partitions as follows (from memory):

> /home reiserfs
> /var reiserfs
> /boot ext2, read only
> /usr ext2, read only
> / ext2, read only
> /root, ext2, read-only

Why? Use ext3fs, much more robust. You can use tune2fs to switch ext2 across 
to ext3, live, and remember to change the fstab entries to match. Also, mount 
/home, /tmp and /var with nosuid and nodev options for extra safety.

Cheers; Leon