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Boot option for mounting read only and run script?
I would like to make a special boot option in grub2. When this boot option is selected as a boot target, it will mount as read only (instead of the normal read/write mode), and run a script that doesn'...
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How does the Linux kernel decide if a block device gets the read-only flag set by default?
I have a USB stick which (for about 2 months) constantly gets mounted read-only. After a bit of research and testing I found out, that the block devices of the device itself (/dev/sdc) and one of the ...
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HFS+ file system being mounted as read-only
I have an external drive that I am formatting for a Mac friend, so I set it to HFS+ using Gparted. I am unable to write any files to the drive now, even after running the mount command with the rw ...
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Is rsync completely read only?
If I use the following command:
rsync -r <source> <dest>
it only reads the files from source? Such that if all of the source directory were read-only, it should never have a problem, is ...
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Mount device as RW for root and RO for everyone else
I have a device I want to mount for root with full permissions and for everyone else as readonly. The man page tells me this is possible.
So:
sudo mkdir /mnt/foo
sudo mkdir /mnt/fooReadOnly
sudo ...
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Why is a file with 400 permissions seen writable by root but read-only by user?
If I create a file as an unprivileged user, and change the permissions mode to 400, it's seen by that user as read-only, correctly:
$ touch somefile
$ chmod 400 somefile
$ [ -w somefile ] && ...
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Read-only filesystem - Considerations and Loss of Functionality
I'm creating an embedded system using Buildroot. Currently, my Buildroot configuration ensures the rootfs is remounted as read/write during startup. However I would like to remove this feature and ...
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How to fix read-only EFI system partition?
I have a EFI partition, /dev/sda1, that I was once able to install GRUB to and change the boot order with efibootmgr without issue, unfortunately now, however, I cannot I receive 'Read-only file ...
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Usability is compromised on Ubuntu because of read-only filesystem error
Over the past couple of days Ubuntu has been progressively locking me out of the the system. I can't open some programs and the last straw was a few minutes ago when it refused to save a screenshot. ...
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Drive in readonly, after cryptsetup
I have been having some trouble with my 16Gb USB. You see I decided to attempt to encrypt it using cryptsetup, and I have done this before without problems, but his time, when I was creating a ...
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UBIFS going into Read only mode
I have a customer unit having UBIFS file system on it. Unit is up and running fine. The unit under goes a test of power cycling (AC mode-Battery mode- AC mode). At some point of time the unit(UBIFS ...
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root file system stays read-only
I am currently trying to start working with an embedded linux device (arm). When I am trying to install packages it fails saying that some /usr/... path points to a read-only filesystem.
By looking ...
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Does mounting external media read only make ejecting the media unnessesary? If so, how to mount all external media read only?
I am building hardware solutions for video debriefing purposes, where users will connect and remove cameras and/or SD cards to computers all the time.
I am working with Raspberry pi's (Raspbian) for ...
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Is it possible to write on a mounted hard-drive that has Apple HFS/HFS+ file system
Running the latest Tails I have attached my hard-drive that got automatically mounted. However it seems only to be read-only.
Is there a way to mount it in read/write ? Or is this not possible since ...
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Mount external HDD with writing permissions
I'm using a 2.7T Porsche Design Desktop Drive (external HDD) at work and I need to mount it on a Proxmox 4.4-13 server. Currently I have several personal info but also have around 1TB free and the ...
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Add GRUB entries when grub.cfg resides on read-only filesystem
Kali Live USB has grub.cfg on a ISO 9660 partition that is obviously read-only.
I want to add more GRUB entries to pass kernel parameters needed for my laptop to boot correctly, is there any way to ...
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(Errno 30: Read-only file system) when creating python virtualenv in shared folder
I am running Ubuntu 17.10 trying to create a python virtual enviroment (named "my_virtualenv") inside my VBOX shared folder with the idea to use this python interpreter in pycharm from my Windows host....
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Restricting user to read-only access for different folders in RHEL
I have referred all the similar questions in this site, but couldn't find out the correct answer.
My requirement is that I have a user testUser where he should only access different folders /etc/...
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USB key not mounted
Using Ubuntu 16.04, this is the output of dmesg when inserting an USB key:
usb 3-1: new high-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=<id1>, idProduct=&...
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samba user write error
I have an issue when I want to write to a raspberry smb share from my PC (linux mint).
users on the raspberry:
default user "pi" and new user "TF"
"pi" user has write permission, but "TF" does not ...
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Unable to remount / back to read-only after package upgrade
I am using Debian Stretch. My root partition is mounted read-only. Only when I install or upgrade packages, is / remounted to read-write (by using apt hook), and then remounted back to ro.
Sometimes ...
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How to properly mount other partitions (NTFS) on my Fedora FSH?
I recently switched to Fedora 27 Beta (UEFI install, dual-boot with Win 10), and I changed my /etc/fstab to include the two following lines:
UUID=D0E24ECDE24EB78C /media/DownloadsBin ntfs-3g auto,...
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Can't set filesystem to rw after crash
My Mint crashed twice yesterday. Googling for frozen system with flashing caps and scroll-lock LEDs made me believe it was a hardware problem. I carefully cleaned everything, and the hardware seems to ...
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LVM volume on USB drive fails: Read-only file system
This is on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian 8 (Linux kernel 4.9.) I have a 64 GB USB pen drive plugged (as /dev/sda) and configured as an LVM physical volume. There's only one volume group ("data") and ...
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Is `mount -o remount,ro` guaranteed to fail if there are files open for writing?
I am working on a safe and race-condition-free alternative to umount -l with removable devices:
I'm planning on:
umount --move under a 000 permissions directory so no more files can be opened by ...
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Device writable even after `blockdev --setro`
I want to use the functionality of umount -l, then remove the underlying device as safely as possible afterward.
I can't use umount --force to unmount the filesystem as it has become invisible to new ...
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How to NFS share 'RO' for all user and 'RW' to some ip's
I'm trying to figure out how can I NFS share same directory RO for all users and RW for some IPs.
OS: Arch Linux & File System: ZFS
I have a config in "/etc/exports.d/testPool.aaa.exports"
/...
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Can't format USB Stick
Ok so here's what happened.
I had been using a USB stick to re-install Windows 10 and quickly reformat my dads laptop. Now I used the existing Windows 10 to create the live USB drive and I guess it ...
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Taking Read-Only off Microsoft USB
So I have a Microsoft USB I got that I no longer have any use for, so I was going to format it and put Ubuntu on it as a joke, but when I try to format it it gives me a "Read-Only" error and I've done ...
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Can't save files or open programs in Kali Linux [duplicate]
I rebooted my Kali Linux which was working fine, but now most of the programs won't start, I can't save anything to any of the partitions, including the Kali Instalation partition. Whenever I try to ...
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“Read-only file system error” on Samba share, alternative share with identical options working (Linux client)
I'm experiencing a very strange problem which I've been trying to solve in the past few days and I already tried various methods of resolution to which I will get to in a moment.
My home network ...
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Cannot edit or delete read only file(s) in embedded linux
i have this hardware piece:
it called: airfiber x5
this device can be accessed through SSH using putty program
or WinSCP to view its operating system's files
it has an embedded web interface,
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How to build a readonly root filesystem in Arch-ARM
I have the following set-up:
hw: RPi 3 Model B
os: 4.4.37-1-ARCH #1 SMP armv7l GNU/Linux
file system: /boot(vfat), /(ext4), /var(ext4)
partitions: three; mounted: /boot, /, /var
storage: mlc nand ...
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Limit the size of tmpfs with overlayroot
Recently I found out that it's possible to use overlayroot with tmpfs to create stateless readonly root.
However I couldn't find any info about limiting the size of tmpfs. Is it possible?
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Samba share security changes: read-only and IP/MAC restrictions
I have a samba share and I want to make some changes for security. Today everybody can read and write my files. It's not safe. I'd like to do the these things:
1- set up for everybody just read files
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usb read only after formatting
I have formatted a USB flash drive, but when I try to move files from somewhere (or create one) into it, it tells me "Destination is read-only". However, I already tryied to chmod 777 /media/denis/...
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What can I do if my USB flash drive / SD-card is write-protected or read-only?
When I plug in my USB flash drive (or SD card), it shows up on my computer as write-protected or read-only. I am unable to transfer data to it, nor can I modify or delete any files already stored on ...
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Symlink directory with content
So I have /usr as 'ro' filesystem (cannot change that, work rules and security) and I have another directory /bigdata which is 'rw'.
I'm installing some services but it needs to write in /usr/foo, so ...
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Sometimes filesystem goes to 'Read-only file system' [on hold]
I am using Ubuntu 14.10. Sometimes my file-system goes into read-only file system. At that time if I restart, it asks for some options:
F - for fix - if I press it, it says "creating /tmp directory ...
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How to ensure that an NTFS disk image file is not being written to when mounted?
I have a 500GB raw disk image file on my HDD that I’ve called dysk.img and that is a result of dd'ing the contents of an external single NTFS partion drive. Its purpose is to attempt data recovery ...
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Are there any partitions that could be set to read only?
I install Debian with separate /, /boot, /usr, /usr/local, /var, /tmp, and /home partitions. Assuming some of these partitions could be placed on a drive that has a physical "read only" switch, could ...
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mounting /var as overlayfs
I'm running a read only filesystem on a raspberry pi so far everything works fine until i tried to mount /var as overlayfs for nginx and other services to work using this:
VAROVRL="-o lowerdir=/var,...
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Mount ext4 read-only
This will still write to /dev/foo if there is a journal:
mount -oro /dev/foo /mnt/disk
How can I treat /dev/foo as read-only?
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Showing read only /var partition on Debian
I have seen an industrial computer running Debian, to protect the flash disk from writes and have the system in a defined state after every boot, the whole disk was mounted read-only, there are no ...
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How to safely discharge UPS using workstation (prevent filesystem damage)
I'm using quite big UPS comparing to hardware attached to it in order to achieve longer uptime on UPS (up to 1h). However as maintenance practice it's advised to discharge it at least every 3 months. ...
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I can't -o “remount,rw” a usb drive
I have a usb drive. It mounts as "ro." When I mount -o "remount,rw" I see this in dmesg.
hfsplus: filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, running fsck.hfsplus is recommended. leaving read-only.
The ...
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Embedded linux read only
I'm currently working on an embedded linux device, i'm trying to make the file system read only which is fairly easy to do, but the application requires read/write access to files in /etc folder (...
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Disk turns read-only while running sudo apt-get upgrade
I just installed Ubuntu 16.04.1 and was trying to run,
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Anytime i do this, the upgrade stops and the disk turns to read only mode.
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How to remove write-protection (or read-only) from a USB flash disk?
My friend gave me his 4 GB USB flash disk because he can't format or remove or copy anything to it. The drive is empty now. But I can't seem to fix the write-protection problem.
Windows can't format ...
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Can a socket be used if its file is read-only?
Can a socket be used if its file is read-only?
For example, if a program needs to be use a socket to communicate with a daemon, but it cannot be allowed to delete the socket.
Because, say, it wouldn'...
