AFAIK, read-only means that for the kernel too. For example, when a root filesystem is mounted read-only (on bootup), the kernel will yell at you if it doesn't get remounted rw (if there are files on that partition that have to be updated at boot).
But I'm not an expert in this area...or any really. :) Regards, Ben On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:15:32AM +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi all, > > How read-only is a read-only partition. If I put a vfat partition in the > /etc/fstab with the 'ro' option then users won't be able to write to the disk > right? > > My question is, will the kernel write to it? > > The reason being that we've just paid a small fortune to have a data recovery > firm undelete a bucket load of files and they have done well. Now I want to > put it into a machine that I *know* won't try to update the disk while I copy > the recovered files off. -- Ben Logan: ben at wblogan dot net OpenPGP Key KeyID: A1ADD1F0 If money can't buy happiness, I guess you'll just have to rent it. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
