Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:05:39 +0100 | | From | Jon Masters <> | | Subject | Re: Weirdness of "mount -o remount,rw" with write-protected floppy |
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On 10/27/05, Evgeny Stambulchik <Evgeny.Stambulchik@weizmann.ac.il> wrote:
> # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy/ > mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only > # mount -o remount,rw /mnt/floppy > # echo $? > 0
Oops. That looks like a bug.
> The bug is present in both 2.4 and 2.6, and is specific to floppy > devices. Other RO media I tried (CDROM, RO-exported NFS) are partially > OK, in the sense that a write attempt returns an error; however, "mount > -o remount,rw" always returns success (this might be a bug in mount).
Interesting. If nobody else gets there first, I'll take a look.
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