I have installed Ubuntu on my machine, I have Windows on a small ssd and I would like that ssd not visible, read-only, or write-protected while I am using linux as I do not want any mistakes to mess up that drive...
You can create an entry for this partition in /etc/fstab and specify it read-only( ro ).
It will automatically mount your partition (unless noauto is specified) as read-only when you start your system.
General format of /etc/fstab file is:
file_system mount_point type options dump pass
Suppose your Windows partition in /dev/sad1 and you want to automatically mount is on /media/Windows (with read-only permission) .
/etc/fstab in gedit using gksudo gedit /etc/fstabNow append following lines in it
#Mount Windows partition as read-only
/dev/sda1 /media/Windows ntfs ro,suid,dev,noexec,auto,user,async 0 0
Note: If you want to prevent the auto mounting of partition during boot, you can replace auto option with noauto.
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