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Re:Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS of many Lenovo laptop models by gens on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:30PM (#15975892)
>Yes, except that none of the tools in question have any support for doing that and so mounting the filesystem read-only rather than read/write would break them.

All 4 of the tools (that can even be wrapped in a shell script until they are, as systemd devs say, "fixed").

>And congratulations, now you've still got a window where something can still break everything while the filesystem is mounted read/write (what happens if the tool crashes during that phase?).

Better to open a window in the morning then to tear down the whole wall forever.

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