On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Herbert Graf <mailinglist4@farcite.net> wrote:
>  >
>  > 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?
>

If you don't mind a manual step, you can use mount with the 'remount'
option to change it to read only.  Otherwise you'll need to make a
udev rule like Xiaofan mentioned.  The controls are very fine grained
if you need them to be, ie you can use serial numbers for
identification of hard drives.

Alex
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