How would mounting and unmounting a read-only volume pose a security risk? Even if for whatever reason, the script bombed out in the middle and left a mounted RO volume, since its write protected on the actual diskette, modifications still couldn't be made to the disk. Even a reboot of a system with a mounted RO volume shouldn't pose any security risk and/or damage to the floppy, correct?
--- "Kelly D. Wason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems like you are defeating the purpose of a package that has the > security > benefits of running out of RAM if you put in a job to exercise the > floppy. > > Maybe I'm missing something, but just pull the thing out and put it > in > storage. Keep a backup configured image on CD or a hard drive > somewhere. > > regards > > Kelly > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Julian > Church > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 4:59 AM > To: Victor McAllister; LEAF list (E-mail) > Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Floppys > > > At 10:48 28/09/01 -0700, Victor McAllister wrote: > >Reboots can fail when the diskette surface > >is coated with dust settling in over several months through the open > diskette > >window. I have found dust to be the biggest enemy of my LEAF > images. > > Sorry to come back to this thread almost a week after it naturally > ended, > but how about giving the floppy a spin every day (or every few days) > by > putting something in crontab? Wouldn't that give it a bit of a dust > off > and so prolong the life of the disk, or at least expose a different > bit of > disc and spread the dust around more evenly so preventing damage? > > To achieve this I've added a line to my crontab file: > > 00 6 * * * root /bin/mount -t msdos -o ro /dev/fd0u1680 /mnt; > /bin/umount /mnt > > I'm not all that experienced at all this, so could someone with a bit > more > expertise let me know what they think of this? If moving the disk is > probably going to help, is mounting and umounting a good way to do > it? > > cheers > > Julian Church > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.ljchurch.co.uk > > > _______________________________________________ > Leaf-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > > > _______________________________________________ > Leaf-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
