Re: setting a disk read only

2004-06-29 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On 26 Jun 2004 at 10:44, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 02:38:28AM +0200, MICSKO Viktor wrote: Is it possible to setting a *whole* disk read only? I mean the way linux does it with hdparm -r 1 device. So adding an -o ro parameter to mount isn't enough, I want to be sure

Re: setting a disk read only

2004-06-27 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Saturday 26 June 2004 22:06, JJB wrote: Security Paranoia It's very important that you completely understand the impact of using the following command will have on your ability to make changes to your system. The simplest thing you can do is set the immutable flag on all system binaries

Re: setting a disk read only

2004-06-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 02:38:28AM +0200, MICSKO Viktor wrote: Is it possible to setting a *whole* disk read only? I mean the way linux does it with hdparm -r 1 device. So adding an -o ro parameter to mount isn't enough, I want to be sure that the disk is unmodified. (I have to access

Re: setting a disk read only

2004-06-26 Thread MICSKO Viktor
Is it possible to setting a *whole* disk read only? I mean the way linux does it with hdparm -r 1 device. So adding an -o ro parameter to mount isn't enough, I want to be sure that the disk is unmodified. Hmmm... SCSI disks can be physically jumpered to be read-only. I should think

RE: setting a disk read only

2004-06-26 Thread JJB
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of MICSKO Viktor Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 6:46 AM To: Matthew Seaman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: setting a disk read only Is it possible to setting a *whole* disk read only? I mean the way linux does it with hdparm -r 1 device. So adding an -o ro

Re: setting a disk read only

2004-06-26 Thread MEZEI Tamas
Security Paranoia It's very important that you completely understand the impact of In this case, this is no security paranoia. The thing is that there is sensitive data on the drives and even a bit of modification is prohibited, but Viktor needs to *read* the data on the disks but no cloning is

Re: setting a disk read only

2004-06-26 Thread Sergey Zaharchenko
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 08:36:49AM -0400, JJB probably wrote: Security Paranoia It's very important that you completely understand the impact of using the following command will have on your ability to make changes to your system. The simplest thing you can do is set the immutable flag on

setting a disk read only

2004-06-25 Thread MICSKO Viktor
Hi, Is it possible to setting a *whole* disk read only? I mean the way linux does it with hdparm -r 1 device. So adding an -o ro parameter to mount isn't enough, I want to be sure that the disk is unmodified. (I have to access an existing raid of 8 disks using vinum without any modified bit