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by smaudet 295 days ago
Didn't there use to be a physical read lock on SD cards?

I know "modern" cards have no space, but if it's important to you, you can still use the full size adapters which should (all?) have the physical lock. Super glue that in place...
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dlcarrier 295 days ago
There's a flag you can set electronically, to make the card read only, but if the OS isn't set up to support running from a read-only filesystem, setting the card to read only will make the OS crash. If the OS is set up for a read-only filesystem, it won't try to write to it, regardless of the flag.

Setting up Linux to run from a read only filesystem only takes a handful of commands, but having a tool to automate it would be nice.

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garaetjjte 294 days ago
Fun fact: SD write lock is just a switch wired to host controller, it doesn't actually prevent writing to the card.
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