Is it possible to mount an entire disk device read only?

[Petter Adsen]

On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 17:59:13 +1000
Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> While looking at another poster's issue I started wondering whether it
> is possible to attach an entire hard disk drive in read-only mode.
> Mounting a partition read-only is easy, but I'm not talking about
> partitions here - I mean the entire drive.
> 
> That is, can I have a read-only /dev/sdb?
> 
> Regards, K.
> 

Check the manufacturer info, I've seen drives that have jumpers to do
just that.

If it's possible to do in software I have no idea, but it's an
interesting question.

Petter

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