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Re: Converting an external hard drive enclosure into a write blocker?
Nov 17 2007 03:14AM
Max Gribov (max neuropunks org)
Tom,
you can mount the storage as read-only - any unix filesystem will
support read-only mount, and provided your root account isnt
compromised, no one can remount it as write. Root cant write to
read-only mounted filesystems without remount either.
mount -r /dev/da2 /readonly in BSD land..
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you can mount the storage as read-only - any unix filesystem will
support read-only mount, and provided your root account isnt
compromised, no one can remount it as write. Root cant write to
read-only mounted filesystems without remount either.
mount -r /dev/da2 /readonly in BSD land..
Id ...
[ more ]