Questions tagged [readonly]
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Should only / be mounted as Read-Only for security in case of power loss, or also /boot
I have an embedded system (specifically, Google Coral with Mendel Linux), which will be running some models. I expect it to get turned off in not a secure way (basically plugging it off) mostly every ...
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Cannot install packages, error: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
I already few days cannot install any packages, I getting this error:
dpkg: error: unable to access the dpkg database directory /var/lib/dpkg: Read-only file system
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg ...
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How to turn off write protection on a micro sd card?
I came across an old micro SD card, previously received with a tablet sent by an educational content provider. I decided to delete the contents of that SD card in order to take it into my personal use....
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Read-only NTFS flash drive refuses to format
I have this SanDisk Cruzer Edge where it's a write-protected NTFS partition that I got from my dad as I needed a flash drive.
I tried using GParted, didn't work, I saw something online that used the ...
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Mount root filesystem with user permission using sshfs
I want to use sshfs to mount filesystem folder on my machine (let's say ~/home).
I would like to be able to edit files inside the / folder that got mounted using any editor (for example, edit /etc/...
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sappend flag is set, but file is read-only
I'm trying to set my /private/etc/hosts file on my Macbook (MacOS Catalina) to append-only (so I can easily add entries, but not remove them)
I tried setting the sappend flag, but it doesn't quite ...
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How to run a process with read-only permissions?
I am running a bunch of python3 scripts containing programming assignments. I'd like to run them on a machine such that they are unable to modify (add/remove/write-to) the file system.
Is there a way ...
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Can ls show read-only files in a specific color?
I like using ls --color=auto and I know how to use dircolors to change the colors of ls's output. I want ls to display read-only files in a color different than "normal" files but don't see ...
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How to display information on readonly terminal
My custom system (based on fedora distro) does not expect any user input and interaction(my custom background services work without it).
So to increase security I wanted to lock all terminals to read-...
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Installing linux mint on pc with hybrid drive, ssd is read only (no dual boot)
I'm attempting to install linux mint on my pc with a hybrid drive system (SSD and disk); not dual boot.
I'm booting linux mint from a usb and install is erroring on grub install, but says the ...
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Push contents of a read-only file system to remote git repo
I have on system A a (remote, read-only mounted from server B via sftp/sshfs) filesystem with data on it that needs to be pushed to a remote git repository regularly.
I was not able to find a git ...
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"systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service" slow on read-only filesystem
On a headless embedded computer (booting on a read-only filesystem), I see that systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service is rather slow, and prevents other services to start earlier (I checked with systemctl ...
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Unable to format or use two USB flash drives
I have 2 USB's I'm unable to use... One went out a Month ago and the second followed suit yesterday. The USB's are Supersonic RAGE Elite 128GB drives and I've tried everything I can think of through ...
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inconsistency between fuser and /proc/$PID/fd
I wanted to find out what prevents the root filesystem on a certain from being remounted read-only. fuser -vm / found a few files which are supposed to be opened for writing. For example:
root ...
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Can not delete files
I copied some files from a DVD using the 'cp -a' command. Now, I can't delete any of the copied files. I set selinux to "permissive" to remove that as source of the problem. Here is what ...
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Assigning value to readonly variable during declaration
Is the following type of readonly variable definition valid?:
#!/bin/sh
readonly a=1
readonly b=1
readonly c=$((a+b))
Is this type of declaration in combination with assignment allowed/recommended?
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How do I create linux system that will not save changes
Is there a way to create linux-based system (best would be centOS), that would be tabula rasa after every reboot ?
The system would only save changes during runtime. So I could install packages, ...
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Removing write protection on a usb drive
I have an usb flash-drive that is write protected since a system crash. In the dmesg, the device write protection is first off, then it is turned on.
Here is the dmesg:
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 60566016 512-...
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How to install SELinux policy for guix-daemon.service on Fedora?
After installing Guix, how do I install the bundled SELinux policy, which is intended to allow the guix-daemon.service to run?
To install Guix 1.3.0 on Fedora 34 Workstation, I used the shell ...
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KVM: use read-only disk with Windows
I want to use a disk image with my Windows virtual machine but I don't want it to be able to write to the image at all. While setting the read-only flag in Windows is an option, I was hoping there was ...
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How to mount an LVM from Read-only to Read and Write
I have a VM with an LVM. Occasionally when updates are performed, and the system has restarted it will go into a read-only state. This is an issue because I perform daily backups.
Unfortunately, for ...
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Privilege drop: Allow readonly access to file for unprivileged process on a readonly file system
An ideally least privileged process should be able to have readonly access to data on a filesystem, which itself is readonly. Hence this is the situation
root@linux# ###(1) filesystem is untrusted + ...
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Bash variables do not expand inside array if declare is used
Recently I decided to read a bit more on the bash built-ins declare, local, and readonly, which led me to switch from:
local variable_name
variable_name='value'
readonly variable_name
To:
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In a user namespace as non-root, on a nosuid,nodev filesystem, why does a bind mount succeed but a remount fails?
In a Linux user namespace, as non-root, I bind mount /tmp/foo to itself. This succeeds.
Then, I try to remount /tmp/foo to be read-only. If /tmp is mounted with nosuid or nodev, then the remount ...
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How to make terminal read only?
How can I make a terminal read only?
Example scenario to give some background-context:
I know one time before (was quite awhile ago) - in Kali-Linux you could make a terminal read-only, but I cannot ...
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Mounting parts of root filesystem read-only
I have an embedded device that I want to harden against data corruption due to unexpected power outages. It is a vanilla Ubuntu 20.04 LTS build with an app in a docker container on top, and I have ...
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Can the performance of ext4 or btrfs be improved for a read-only filesystem?
I have filesystem data sets of about 100G (4 million files and directories; more directories than files). This data is accessed read-only. Is there anything that can be done with either ext4 or btrfs ...
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Debian 10 buster apt update failed - Read-only file system
Auto updates are enabled on my Debian 10 buster server.
I noticed however that many errors appeared when I ran apt update command manually:
Err:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/...
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Create a "read-only" file system, that can still update packages
I would like to configure my system (raspbian) in a way that it is read-only most of the time. I have a script that runs every few days/weeks that updates all the important installed packages so I ...
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How to fix Read only permission for secondary hard disk drives
I have two storage drive.
128GB SSD [installed Linux Mint]
1 Terabyte HDD [contain few ntfs drives and c drive contain Windows OS]
I disabled fastboot in windows few months ago and then I am not ...
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cannot open LUKS patition as read only
I have saved a whole disk image of a Debian Jessie in a image.img file using:
$ dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/usbdisk/image.img
This file is meant to be a backup of the whole disk. The whole partition was ...
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Switch to systemd causes file system to be mounted read-only
I switched from SysVInit to systemd on my VPS and the file system has been mounted read-only ever since. Remounting the file system with mount -o remount,rw / works, but the file system is mounted ...
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Read-only rootfs on boot
I tried to install Void-Linux as secondary Linux on my laptop. I created a new partition for it on LVM, installed base system using XBPS method copied kernel and initramfs to my /boot partition and ...
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I edited a file with the command "sudo xed /etc/fstab" and now my computer boots to the command line, how can I go back to GUI?
I was watching a video about what to do after installing Linux mint and the guy in the video said that you should run the command sudo xed /etc/fstab and substitute errors=remount-ro with errors=...
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Why mounting the root filsystem as readonly does not prevent it from changing?
I'm making some experiment with dm-verity and an ext4 filesystem.
Basically, what I want is just to have an ext4 filesystem in read-only that never changes.
I've tried:
Adding ro,noatime in fstab
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SSD stuck on read-only mode
I bought a second hand SSD. I made tests before buying it.
When I got the disc, I ran its tests. I did low scan with HDTune. There was no error. The writing speed was also fine. I trusted and bought ...
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can't update read-only /usr
Got /usr in a separate logic partition (LVM).
If sudo apt-get update throws error "read-only".
There's a way to keep it ro but allowing updates, or switching between ro and rw?
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How can I start tmux in a readonly environment?
I'm trying to start a tmux session in a readonly environment, but receive the error:
pi@raspberry(ro):~/development$ tmux
error creating /tmp//tmux-1000 (Permission denied)
This raspberry pi project ...
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is my thumbdrive dead?
I got a 16GB Sandisk thumbdrive which was "locked" recently while transfering data, and now I can't do anything to the drive, only able to read the remain data. below here are some attempt ...
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Changing Timezone using timedatectl on a read only filesystem
I am trying to change timezone using timedatectl on a readonly file system. And I am unable to do so. I get an error saying unable to change timezone. I am guessing that is because it is a read-only ...
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Why Am I able to edit /etc/resolv.conf on a read only file system?
I have an embedded linux environment which has a read only root file system on it.
I am unable to edit files and create new directory in the read only root file system as expected.
However, I see that ...
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Ubuntu Server 20.04 (and 19.04) extremely high writes to SSD, remounted as readonly
I'm running a small home server which runs Ubuntu 20.04 (19.04 before).
This server only runs docker and generally writes its data to a ZFS Pool that I mount (not really relevant for this story, just ...
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root is mounted as read only filesystem but /etc/fstab looks alright [closed]
My ubuntu 18.04 boots into read only filesystem / and i really dont know why. I know, that a bad fstab can cause this problem, but my fstab looks okay:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#...
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Debian 10 Read-Only filesystem Unattended Upgrades
I have a Debian 10 (embedded) machine that has a read-only filesystem.
The problem is that the following services fail: "apt-daily" and "apt-daily-upgrade".
I need these services, ...
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Read Only root for Archlinux ARM
I am running Archlinux ARM on Raspberry Pi 3 model B. I want to use the Pi for running my mother's favourite news channel on YouTube with Firefox's kiosk mode.
My mother will be the Pi's user, but ...
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Unable to move shell schript to init.d, is in read only file-system on an embedded linux
When I do
cp run-rfid-script.sh /init.d
I get this error message
cp: can't create '/init.d': Read-only file system
How can I overcome this problem?
Other info on what I am doing
I have a shell ...
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read-only file system error tryng to mkdir into a windows containing HDD from a broken laptop
I just broke my laptop (running Windowns 10) which is the one that I use for music making. I've got another laptop without HDD and my plan was to mount the HDD into this second laptop and try to ...
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Network issues after setup a read only file system
I'm new to Linux (Raspbian Buster / Raspberry Pi 4 model B) and I have some network issues after setup a read only file system. I followed this guide to realize the ro fs.
My raspberry is connected ...
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Files became read-only in my Kali Linux
rm [EgyBest].Vikings.S04E20.BluRay.1080p.x264.mp4
rm: cannot remove '[EgyBest].Vikings.S04E20.BluRay.1080p.x264.mp4': Read-only file system
Why did my simple videos or C files became read-only files?
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Can I mount ext4 without writing the last mountpoint to the filesystem?
I have an old ext4 disk partition that I have to investigate without disturbing it. So I copied the complete partition to an image file and mounted that image file while continuing my investigation.
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