Re: Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only?

2018-07-19 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:47 PM Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 18:14:19 +0200 > deloptes wrote: > > >why not use something more decent like ext3 or ext4? we are in 2018 ;-) > > (your smiley noted) > Ken gave no indication of time-frame, other than in the past. Could've > been last

Re: Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only?

2018-07-19 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 18:14:19 +0200 deloptes wrote: Hello deloptes, >why not use something more decent like ext3 or ext4? we are in 2018 ;-) (your smiley noted) Ken gave no indication of time-frame, other than in the past. Could've been last week, could've been twenty years ago. -- Regards

Re: Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only?

2018-07-19 Thread deloptes
Kenneth Parker wrote: > My worst, was kind of "mild", though scary:  I had to rebuild /boot (on > ext2), because the last action was placing a copy of the Linux Kernel on > /boot. why not use something more decent like ext3 or ext4? we are in 2018 ;-) regards

Re: Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only?

2018-07-19 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 8:09 AM Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 07:56:34 -0400 > Kenneth Parker wrote: > > Hello Kenneth, > > >My worst, was kind of "mild", though scary: I had to rebuild /boot (on > >ext2), because the last action was placing a copy of the Linux Kernel on > >/boot. > >

Re: Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only?

2018-07-19 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 07:56:34 -0400 Kenneth Parker wrote: Hello Kenneth, >My worst, was kind of "mild", though scary: I had to rebuild /boot (on >ext2), because the last action was placing a copy of the Linux Kernel on >/boot. It was the fear of such an issue (an inability to boot) that

Re: Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only?

2018-07-19 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 2:20 AM Brad Rogers wrote: > > Worst I had happen as a result of power failure was that disk the > journal couldn't recover everything required, such that sector errors > were reported on every boot. A reformat got around that. Tiresome, but > not fatal. > My worst,

Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only?

2018-07-19 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:34:37 -0400 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: Hello Cindy-Sue, (I've removed references, so this should no longer thread with the USB drive thread) >reinstall... or something. I don't remember hardware getting fried, >just [code]. Maybe it was even "that other" operating system