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From: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume)
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Subject: Re: Unmountable disk partitions
Keywords: sysV.3.2 disk partition table
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.204556.12303@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
Date: 15 Nov 90 20:45:56 GMT
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tanya@adds.newyork.NCR.COM ( tanya katz ) writes:
>I have a partitioned disk on which I want to mark one or more 
>partitions as unmountable.

well, a 'perm=NOMOUNT' in the filesystem's stanza in /etc/partitions
sounds logical, but if you want to be *really* sure that you cannot
mount it even from a boot floppy, i'll be happy to send you a little
superblock editor (:-) so you can change the filesystem type magic number
or whatever you like to make mount fail.
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