[2759] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: read-only disks (was Re: Hacked)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Garloff)
Wed Nov 5 16:38:04 1997
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 22:38:29 +0100 (CET)
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@kg1.ping.de>
To: Mr M S Aitchison <physmsa@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199711031937.IAA16021@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Mr M S Aitchison wrote:
> How well would Linux support a disk that (sometimes) is in read-only
> mode? Would it keep trying to write warnings to the log, and make the
> system impractical to run?
Just mount it read-onyl and linux won't complain.
> Normally a partition is mounted read-only
> at the start - can it be changed on the fly?
mount -o remount,ro /mountpoint
mount -o remount,rw /mountpoint
> Is there some scsi
> convention already for read-only disks that is applicable to a
> situation where (e.g.) sdb is read-only unless I insert some hardware
> key?
Not to my knowledge.
Kurt Garloff, Dortmund
<K.Garloff@ping.de>
