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From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>
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Subject: Question on odd acl/permissions.
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Hey all, I'd like to make a "live" backup of a file system on a regular 
basis, and maintain permissions, but have such a thing be only writable by 
root at any given time.  (i.e. I keep a backup drive unmounted, and mount 
it read-only when users need their data).  The thing is, I have to mount 
it read-write in order to create the archive.  Is there any way to make a 
file system read-only for normal users but read-write by root?

This is a local filesystem.

-Dan

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