On Lu, 26 nov 12, 21:47:36, Amit wrote: > > Yes the above would work in most cases but in the case I am dealing > with, the filesystem is not mounted yet. For example, I plug in a USB > drive. Before it is mounted, there is a /dev/sd[x] node. I can open > this node and write anything I want, thereby corrupting the filesystem > on that device.
Not unless you are 'root' or member of group 'floppy': $ ls -l /dev/sdb1 brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 17 nov 27 00:14 /dev/sdb1 You could just tweak the relevant udev rule to create the device nodes as root:root or root:disk (like hard drives), since root would be able to circumvent any protection and 'disk' is almost the same as 'root'. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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