Derek Glidden wrote:
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>
> Related, if you take it a step further and add an "/etc" partition, (or
> put your /etc in a ramdrive or something) you can get to the point where
> you can mount your / and /usr partitions read-only, which is another big
> advantage if your have power outages for any reason because read-only
> mounted partitions never need to be fsck'ed after an unexpected reboot.
> It also helps for security if files in / and /usr are not writable since
> most script-kiddie scripts don't include "mount -o remount,rw /" type
> things in them and assume they'll be able to write to the files they
> want to without fiddling with mounts.
>
>From
Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 For Intel x86
Chapter 4 Partitioning Your Hard Drive
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html
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4.1.1 The Directory Tree
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/: root represents the starting point of the directory hierarchy. It
contains the essential programs that the computer can boot. This
includes the kernel, system libraries, configuration files in /etc and
various other needed files.
Typically 30-50 MB are needed but this may vary.
Note: do not partition /etc, /bin, /sbin, /lib or /dev as its own
partition; you won't be able to boot.
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I am not sure but I believe that you are recommending to do exactly what
Debian is suggesting that you do not do that is participation /etc.
Obviously you have overcame these limits but in your opinion would this
be a course of action for a desktop workstation with a dsl line?
Thanks
Frank
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PS. I am curious. What is the following suppose to be?
> --
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map
> {$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;
> $t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)
> [$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h=5;$_=unxb24,join
> "",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$d=
> unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=$t&($d
> >>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*
> 8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}
> print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval
>
> usage: qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 < /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILENAME \
> | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2dec -
>
> http://www.eff.org/ http://www.opendvd.org/
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/
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