Mount external HD read only

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 09:23 +0100, Blaesse, Michael wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I hope this is the right list to ask as I could not find a solution
> with Google. I have running SuSE 9.3 and the external firewire HDs are
> mounted automatically without problems. But for data safety reasons I
> would like them to be mounted read only. Is it possible to change the
> policies so that this is achieved?

In the future this will be possible from your desktop environment of
choice now that HAL exports the Mount/Unmount/Eject methods. In GNOME we
have gnome-mount (needs some work still) and I've seen promising things
on the KDE side too.

    David