OT: USB stick with write protect switch?

[Fred Roller]

drew einhorn wrote:
> The convenience of booting from a USB stick is great!
>
> It would be even better to be able to flip a switch on the stick
> and making it a read only device!
>
> Anybody know of a source?
>
>   
 From a terminal.

    sudo chmod 444 /media/disk

where disk=mount point for the USB device.  This will render the USB 
device read only in the simplest form.  Read
   
    man chmod

for more details on how you can set the privileges of the device.

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