Hi,
Is it possible to have the root partition (/) mounted as readonly while maintaining the ability to automount external devices to /media/?
In my setup (Debian Buster w/Xfce4) I have to re-mount the root partition as rw, otherwise I receive the following error message:
"Error creating mount point '/media/foo': Read-only file system."
As a workaround, I have created the following entry in fstab:
tmpfs /media tmpfs rw,nosuid,noexec,auto,mode=1777 0 0
This works, but I wonder if there is a 'standard' method for achieving automount convenience with systems where / is mounted readonly.

Thanks

When running a read-only root filesystem, you can add an in-memory overlay filesystem so that you can mount and make other temporary changes. All changes are lost on reboot.

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