-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 02:44:02PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > The reason to do this is to protect data on thumb drives full of > archives. > > When searching for information, most of the discussion > was from people who had root file systems which had been > corrupted so the mount process mounted them read-only. > > In this case, all is well and the drives being mounted > contain archives which one doesn't want to lose so mounting them > as read-only would be a good way to protect them.
Yes, you can. Try sudo mount -oro /dev/<your usb drive partition> /mnt (for a more concrete example, assuming your USB drive comes up as /dev/sdc and has one partition, say /dev/sdc1): sudo mount -oro /dev/sdc1 /mnt Now if you are using a desktop environment, it will most probably mount things for you... but read/write. You can remount it read-only like so sudo mount -oro,remount /dev/sdc1 /mnt Perhaps your desktop environment has some knobs to do that. Here, I'll have to defer to more DE knowledgeable folks here. Cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAltOSSQACgkQBcgs9XrR2kab+gCZAelUxR3R2+Lgj7C3WJCAoZjm PJwAmwQh+2gEpFqqIGQhzovP25zQApi9 =funo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
