Can you make Linux (Ubuntu) main hard disk read only? (live CD hard drive)

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I have a Ubuntu system that has installed various program and custom stuff.

I would like to make it read-only so that against power interruption and other non-privileged user to damage it.

I think mount EXT4 as read only won't help, since it requires /var/log and /dev folder to be writable,

I was wondering can you make the existing system into a live CD harddisk (I.e. a live CD image into harddisk)?

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams · Answer 1 · 2011-04-26 03:06:58Z

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Mount it read-only, and mount tmpfs to /dev and /var/log.

answered Apr 26 '11 at 3:06

thanks, but is there any other folder need to be mounted as tempfs? /proc or ?? – c2h2 Apr 26 '11 at 3:11

You could always try and find out. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Apr 26 '11 at 3:17

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/dev is always a tmpfs on udev-running Linux systems. Regarding /proc, it's already a virtual filesystem, too. – grawity Apr 26 '11 at 4:42

@grawity: "none on /dev type devtmpfs" – Hello71 Apr 27 '11 at 2:23

@c2h2: Typically, /proc is a proc type filesystem. – Hello71 Apr 27 '11 at 2:25

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