From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 13:26:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F038537B401 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:26:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (cypress.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFDEE43E58 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:26:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6JKQZdq071943 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:26:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g6JKQZsq071940 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:26:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cypress.adhesivemedia.com: philip owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:26:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: If a disk is mounted read only is it possible to corrupt it? In-Reply-To: <20020719171117.GA41946@vectors.cx> Message-ID: <20020719132123.F60588-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all - This seems like an obvious answer, but I didn't see anything in the man pages or the FQ so... If I mount *all* of my partitions as read only (ignoring the problems of needing to write log files, etc. for now) and then cut the power to the server, is there any chance of corrupting the disk? It seems that FreeBSD wouldn't do it, but would the disk itself do it? Thanks! -philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message