Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 1) a separate /tmp to protect the root filesystem from /tmp overflow > has always seemed to me like a good idea. I can't remember why but there was some reason for not mounting /tmp as a separate filesystem. It's probably buried along with "sync sync sync". > 3) if i'm feeling bold and daring, i'll mount /usr read-only (as the > FHS suggests it has the right to be). AFAIK, there's nothing in > fedora core that requires /usr to be mounted read-write in normal > operation, and i can always remount briefly when i'm installing or > updating SW. That is the proper and correct way to have /usr mounted. -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk