Re: Lock tab on SD card?

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

John Conover wrote: 
> 
> Mounting an SD card with the lock tab enabled mounts as read only.
> 
> But can Linux still write to the SD card, under any circumstances?

Under *any* circumstances? Yes.

Those circumstances include:

- a broken lock position sensor on the SD card reader

- the SD card is actually a microSD card in an adaptor; moving
  it to a microSD reader or a different adaptor will work

- the reader has been altered away from spec

- the lock tab is moved

Note that Linux needs to remount a read-only filesystem to make
it read-write.

Now, what is the problem you are actually trying to solve?

-dsr-