Devices that allow acquisition of information on a drive without creating the possibility of accidentally damaging the drive contents
Questions tagged [write-blocker]
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Why are write blockers needed when there is mount with read-only?
Let’s say we're using some flavor of Linux and we mount a partition using following command:
sudo mount -o ro /dev/sdc1 /mnt
The partition is supposed to be read-only so that the OS and user cannot write to the disk without changing the mount…
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