Bruno Albuquerque wrote: > Truls Becken wrote: > >> Unless I'm missing something, there is no way to mount file systems >> read-only from the GUI. Isn't that a bit of a problem, especially >> these days, when mounting foreign partitions read-write is discouraged >> if they contain anything of value? > > Whenever you manually select a partition to be mounted, Tracker will ask you > if you want to mount it read-only or read-write. What filesystem are you > trying to mount? Note some are read-only by default (no write support was > implemented). Ah, so I was missing something, precisely because my fs only supports reading. I was mounting a ReiserFS partition to copy over some files, and found no indications nor choices for read-onlyness. I now see that df reports the volume without a writable flag, so all is well :) Thanks and sorry for the noise. -Truls