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Date:      Wed, 05 Aug 1998 16:24:28 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        randal@comtest.com
Cc:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, dinesh@alphaque.com, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PicoBSD now runs in 4MB! 
Message-ID:  <199808052324.QAA01650@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Aug 1998 12:23:26 -1000." <199808052218.MAA04115@oldyeller.comtest.com> 

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> BTW,  I also have noticed something odd.  When booting from floppy with a 
> write protected disk, two write protect error messages comes up when just 
> mounting the floppy.  Why is that?  Does mounting the floppy cause a 
> write to it?  This is not good if every time it boots it writes to disk.
> This can reduce the life on a IDE Flash drive.

Mount the filesystem readonly (-o ro).

> I do not notice any write protect errors when mounting from a standard 
> FreeBSD system only from PicoBSD.

If you're mounting as the root filesystem, it's likely that stuff in 
/dev/ is having its atime/mtime updated.
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