On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Herbert Graf <mailinglist4@farcite.net> wrote:

> > Am I missing something, or is it enough to use /etc/fstab to tell the OS
> > that the drive is read only?
>
> Considering the USB drive is automounted by the OS, and I don't want to
> affect the behaviour of other USB drives that might be plugged in, I
> didn't think this was an option. That was why I was hoping there was a
> method over the ATA interface to indicate RO.
>
> That said, is there a way to selectively set the mount options for USB
> drives?

Maybe udev rules will help here.
Some pointer through Google.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=268291
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1574752
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-633209.html


Xiaofan
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