[admpablo]

Hi, i'm running mandrake 9.2, and i need to know how to automount any windows partition in read-only mode,
When i install Mandrake 9.2 automount all ntfs partition in read-only mode, now FAT and FAT32 are not automount in read-only mode, but you can choose to mount them during the installation with read-only, but i'm wonder if i can change some settings so everytime i plug a new hard drive with FAT or FAT32 is automatically mount in read only mode, like caldera 3.1.1 (openLinux) always automount all windows file systems in read-only mode is possible to so or what distro is better for this.

Thank you for any help

;(

[Maillion]

Well, you'd probably need to change the data for that partition in either fstab or mtab, maybe both. The line on each partition will say rw for read/write. It would need to be changed to ro for read only.

Here is the fstab man page online: http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?fstab+4

One part of page 2:

Quote:

The mnt_opts field contains a list of comma-separated option words. Some
mnt_opts are valid for all filesystem types, while others apply to a
specific type only.

Options valid on all filesystems (the default is rw) are:

rw Read/write.

ro Read-only.

noauto Ignore this entry during a mount -a command, to allow the
definition of fstab entries for commonly-used filesystems that
should not be automatically mounted.

grpid Causes a file created within the filesystem to have the group
ID of its parent directory, not the creating process's group
ID.

nosuid Setuid execution not allowed for non-superusers. This option
has no effect for the superuser.

nodev Access to character and block special files is disallowed.

I hope it helps. 8)

(Just to satisfy my curiosity, why do you want your Windows partitions in read-only?)

[admpablo]

Thanks Maillion, thank you for your reply i'll try this (mtab) and i will let you know

thanks a lot