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[Jerry McBride]

On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 08:42:26 +0800 "m.w.chang" <mwchang at i-cable.com> wrote:

> 
> is there a mod or patch or something that could make linux to stop ALL 
> applications from writing to the harddisk except on a specified set of 
> partitions? I meant, can linux kernel guaratee such a thing?
> 

Just remount the partition as ro... 

For instance you could do: mount -n -o remount,ro /dev/hda1

When you want write access back, use rw instead or ro.

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