Re: If a disk is mounted read only is it possible to corrupt it?

2002-07-22 Thread Jens Rehsack
Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi all - This seems like an obvious answer, but I didn't see anything in the man pages or the FQ so... If I mount *all* of my partitions as read only (ignoring the problems of needing to write log files, etc. for now) and then cut the power to the

Re: If a disk is mounted read only is it possible to corrupt it?

2002-07-22 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
On Monday 22 July 2002 06:23 am, Jens Rehsack wrote: | Philip Hallstrom wrote: | Hi all - | This seems like an obvious answer, but I didn't see anything in | the man pages or the FQ so... | | If I mount *all* of my partitions as read only (ignoring the problems of | needing to write

RE: If a disk is mounted read only is it possible to corrupt it?

2002-07-22 Thread Balaji, Pavan
Corruption need not necessarily be s/w based. If your reader/writer is screwed up, it might still corrupt it. Guess, I'm too paranoid ;-) Pavan Balaji, Intel Corporation Only the Paranoid Survive -- Andy Grove -Original Message- From: Brian T. Schellenberger [mailto:[EMAIL