On Thursday, 6 May 2021 10:00:43 AEST Trent W. Buck via luv-talk wrote: > I have a very simple trick here. > > If (say) /srv/backup/removable-hdd is always meant to be a mountpoint, > > umount /srv/backup/removable-hdd # make sure you edit the > parent filesystem, not the root of the mounted filesystem sudo chmod 0 > /srv/backup/removable-hdd # stop non-root users writing to it sudo chattr > +i /srv/backup/removable-hdd # stop root writing to it mount > /srv/backup/removable-hdd # put things back how they should be
That's a good trick. Another thing I've done is mount a tmpfs on /mnt with a small number for size=. That means that people or scripts can create /mmt/whatever to mount things but if anyone tries to copy gigs of data there it won't happen. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
