On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Josh Glover wrote:
> A dangerous thought indeed. If your /boot partition is the same as
> your / partition, you lose the ability to not automatically mount
> /boot. Not having /boot mounted means that nothing can accidentally
> hose your kernel while your system is running, thus giving you the
> peace of mind that you can at least boot into single-user mode to
> repair your system after a crash.
Even better, not having /boot mounted means your package management
system will write to your / partition when it next updates your
kernel package.
Yay!
Another great idea, don't mount /proc - it improves security and will
keep software maintainers happily occupied, trying to figure out bug
reports of configure scripts failing.
Not all ideas are good ones..
regards,
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