Le 22/07/2016 à 20:07, Richard Owlett a écrit :
The partition will be marked "read only" *AFTER* install.
May I ask how you intend to do this ?
AFAIK, there is no persistent way to mark a partition or
filesystem read-only. GPT partition table entries have a
read-only flag but it seems to be ignored.
An ext2/3/4 filesystem can be mounted read-only, but this is only
a mount-time option. tune2fs does not provide any option to mount
it read-only permanently.
A block device can be set read-only with the following command :
blockdev --setro /dev/<device>
but this is not persistent either and must be done at each boot
by an initscript, systemd service or udev rule.
*TYPO*
I wish to "almost clone" sda5 to [sda6, sda7, sda8].
I had figured out, but wanted to be sure there was no
misunderstanding.
I hope that makes more sense.
Quite. I have cloned a root partition on the same disk in order
to do some experiments on the cloned system. I think I just
changed the UUID and label in the filesystem metadata and in
/etc/fstab.