From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 22 3:26:22 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 0E13F37B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 03:26:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E817543E6E for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 03:26:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rehsack@liwing.de) Received: (qmail 65978 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2002 10:36:25 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 22 Jul 2002 10:36:25 -0000 Message-ID: <3D3BDD27.8152AA0B@liwing.de> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:23:35 +0200 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Philip Hallstrom Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: If a disk is mounted read only is it possible to corrupt it? References: <20020719132123.F60588-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > 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? That depends on the disk you're using. If you have problem with your power supply, you should better think 'bout an uninterruptable power supply. Jens > Thanks! > > -philip > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- L i W W W i Jens Rehsack L W W W L i W W W W i nnn gggg LiWing IT-Services L i W W W W i n n g g LLLL i W W i n n g g Friesenstraße 2 gggg 06112 Halle g g g Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91 ggg e-Mail: Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92 http://www.liwing.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message