[Novalug] USB flash drive: make drive read-only, write protect switch?

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Thu Oct 2 08:13:12 EDT 2008


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You can mount (unix) read-only. I have seen physical switches on some
devices, but they are small and old (32mb)

John Christopher wrote:
> I would like to write some data to a USB flash drive and then make
> the whole drive read-only.  Is this possible?  Would this be usable
> with other operating systems?
> 
> Has anyone ever seen a USB flash drive with a write-protect switch?


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