[svlug] Partitioning problem

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Jeffrey Siegal (jbs at quiotix.com):

> On Feb 7, 2006, at 18:30 , Rick Moen wrote:
> > /dev/sda1   200M  /boot       ext2    nodev,nosuid,noexec          
> > 0     2
> 
> Is it workable to mount that ro?

Yes.  I've done that at times in the past.  And, in the previous system
incarnation (which used lilo), I just went all the way and did "noauto"
on it.

At that point, you have to either remember to do manual steps before
package maintenance that touchs /boot, or automate that as part of the
maintenance scripts.  (I have such scripts to remount /usr read-write 
just prior to package operations, and read-only again when they're
done.)