On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 20:41 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > How does a hard drive tell an OS it's write protected? Is it even
> > possible?
> 
> What your looking for is in man 8 mount.
> 
> mount -r /dev/sda1
> 
> -r     Mount the file system read-only. A synonym is -o ro. 

Any pointers on how I would go about doing this for something that is
automounted by default (I'm using Ubuntu), without affecting all devices
that are automounted?

Thanks, TTYL
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