I have a system with Windows and Linux installed, and Windows is installed on a driver with an NTFS partition. I want to make sure that I don't accidentally write to this partition, so I want it always mounted as read-only.
I know I can manually create an /etc/fstab entry to mount that partition at some fixed mount point and have it be read-only. But that requires me to 1) pick a fixed mount point, and 2) identify the drive manually by UUID or device.
Ubuntu currently mounts that drive dynamically. It detects the drive and creates a nice mount point. I want to build on that feature. Is there a way to tell Ubuntu that this particular NTFS device should be mounted read-only, without specifying where it should be mounted or any other mount options.
I tried using the KDE Partition Manager, but it seems to be broken. It won't actually write any entries to /etc/fstab, even though it says it will.