I have a kubuntu 12.04 booting from a thumb drive, which works well, but I would like to be able to then pull out the thumb drive and hopefully not damage the file system so much that it will not boot.
There are a few scenarios I have, but basically I need to be able to boot up from the thumb drive, start a couple programs (or they may auto-start) and then pull it.
I already know the programs will continue to run / do not write any data, but I want to prevent the drive from becoming damaged and not able to boot (or prevent the system from hanging) when I remove the drive.
Possibly there is a way to boot with the drive in read only (but allow me to put it in to read-write if I need to make changes)? Any other ideas?
After the machine comes up, you should be able to use something like
Alternatively, you can set it to read-only in the fstab and use something like