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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> > Nope - mounting a partition won't reformat it.  If you want to be really
> > paranoid, mount readonly with -ro option, then you won't be able to write 
> > to
> > it at all.
> 
> mount /dev/hda1 /hd -ro
> mount:  option requires an argument --o
> VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,1).

That's not what he meant. Try:

mount -o ro -t msdos /dev/hda1 /hd

Replace relevant sections as needed.

David
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