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Old 02-12-2013, 04:37 PM   #1
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Where to mount usb drive on ro kernel filesystem


When running ubuntu 10.04 with a read-only root filesystem where would be the preferred location to mount usb drives since /media would also be ro.
 
Old 02-12-2013, 04:42 PM   #2
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Think about your question here... When you mount a device you are presenting a new mount point with its own options to the linux kernel. So you can very easily do the mount command with the -o rw option.
 
Old 02-12-2013, 05:18 PM   #3
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but in order to mount i would need to have a mount point right? and that would require creating a directory under /media which is ro. I can create something while my filesystem is rw, but that doesn't seem like the correct solution
 
Old 02-12-2013, 05:25 PM   #4
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All you need is an existing mount point so if you create the directory /media/usb it will always be there you can then mount your USB drive as rw to that folder and it will be its own read/write filesystem in /media/usb
 
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Maybe you got already something mounted to tmpfs. "mount | grep tmpfs"
 
  


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