Hi, Thanks for ur response. yes, i want that no body should be able to mount the HDD malaciously. i will try as u suggested. ALso, can i change the name of the file system so that it is displayed someting like ABCFS instead Ext3FS. thanks in advance tanmay --- "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 05:59, nettty wrote: > > > A very Happy and Prosperous New Year to all of > you!! > > Thanks, and to you too! > > > i want to create a server that will ext3 file > system, > > but at the same time i want to make the file > system > > unmountable, when the HDD is attached as > > slave/secondary. > > > > Can it be done in any way with ext3. > > any ideas or alternatives?? > > You mean you want it to be mountable only when the > disk is located in a > specific place on the IDE chain? There's no way to > do that, I'm afraid. > > What exactly are you trying to achieve here? If > it's to prevent the > disk from being mounted maliciously, loop device > crypto may be useful. > > Cheers, > Stephen > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
