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Auto-mount USB drives read-only

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Mar 15, 20265838 views
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I'm currently setting up a laptop for my grandparents to use. They have never used a computer before, so I'm trying to make this as fool-proof as possible. The system will be setup with Ubuntu 10.10. In order to save them the hassle of having to unmount USB drives before disconnecting them, I would…

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Fix for: Auto-mount USB drives read-only

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At this point I'll assume your system uses Udev and not HAL. So you want to create a rule file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ named, as an example, 25-usb-read-only.rules In that file put this: Restart udev or reboot and you should be set.

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