Bug 26647

Summary:	for safeness of LiveCD, mount extra partitions read-only during the boot
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz>
Component:	mkimage-profiles	Assignee:	Антон Мидюков <antohami>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	antohami, mike
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux

Description

Ivan Zakharyaschev 2011-11-28 18:54:30 MSK

A suggestion for how the LiveCDs are booted: mount the disk devices found during the system startup only read-only. For safeness. 

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #26646 +++

I've been using the live system from Simply Linux 6.0.1RC2 DVD. I've noticed that the hard disks of the computer (that are found additionally during the boot) are mounted read-write.

For more safeness, the additional partitions found at boot time could be initially mounted read-only (not to destroy anything already present on this computer).

Then, perhaps, there could be a menu entry in Thunar to remount them read-write -- for those users who don't know commands like "mount -o rmount,rw " and wish to use only the GUI.

Comment 1

Michael Shigorin 2011-11-28 18:56:51 MSK

I don't mount them at all, and find the rw vs ro tradeoff debatable at best.