Need some help with mounting drive as read-only

Tidder · 04-24-2006, 12:50 AM

I know that some writes have to happen on the boot, but how do I mount the drive as read only so I can shut if off without worrying about data loss?

I'm running the current version of Damn Small Linux. It's based off of Knoppix/Debian. I think it's kernel v. is 2.4, I don't know if that matters or not.

Bottom line is I don't know jack about linux, and I can't find any good info on what to do exactly. Most everything I googled expected me to know something about linux. I know jack. If someone could point me in the right direction, that'd would be most awesome. I'm trying to learn...

psyrex · 04-24-2006, 01:00 AM

Does this partition mount at boot, or is manually mounted? if mounted at boot time, look into /etc/fstab and the "ro" (read only) flag.

-psyrex

Tidder · 04-24-2006, 01:06 AM

It's mounted at boot time.

psyrex · 04-24-2006, 01:08 AM

So just edit your fstab file. Here's the first link from google: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

-psyrex

Tidder · 04-24-2006, 11:45 AM

Yeah, I added that to my hda2. Amazing. That was so easy, I must be retarded when it comes to google. Thanks a bunch.