[haiku] Re: No way to mount disks readonly from Tracker?
- From: Truls Becken <truls.becken@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:44:36 +0200
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
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