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Will mounting my disk as "ro" make it completely read-only?

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Mar 15, 20265244 views
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I've got a dualboot installation with Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7 Ultimate. I've got 2 drives with the following partitions set up: In Ubuntu, I'm auto mounting the entire 500GB drive, using an line. I've configured that line as the following: Where the UUID is the one of the 500GB drive and is my e…

Error Output

500 GB drive
2 partitions:
    C:/   320GB NTFS (Has Win 7 on it)
    D:/   180GB NTFS


160 GB drive
1 main partition:
    1     160GB EXT4 (Has Ubu…

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Fix for: Will mounting my disk as "ro" make it completely read-only?

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If you mount a filesystem read-only, there is no way to modify it through filesystem operations. Not even if you're root. If you want to perform any modification (write to a file, remove a file, change permissions, update the access time, etc.), you…

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