NTFS rewrite?

chocobanana · 05-31-2005, 04:41 AM

Greetings

I have just one small curiosity:

If one is using KDE file manager in super user mode and tries to delete the files of a NTFS partition mounted as read-only in fstab, is it possible that the files are actually deleted?

Thanks

ArbiterOne · 05-31-2005, 04:48 AM

Why are you asking? Has it happened?
If it's mounted readonly.... no, I couldn't imagine a situation in which that could occur. Even superusers can't readwrite to readonly partitions- try adding something to /proc sometime and you'll see.
Do you have NTFS write support (EXPERIMENTAL) enabled? I don't use this but it's possible that could be your problem.

chocobanana · 05-31-2005, 04:36 PM

I think nothing happened, but while I was in super user mode in kde (kdesu) I accidently pressed delete over a ntfs partition in /mnt and it showed the windows with deleting in progress, but I canceled right away.

But I think that everything is fine, that's why I said it is just a curiosity...

ArbiterOne · 06-01-2005, 07:15 AM

If anything got deleted it's possible that your mount point might be gone- in which case all you need to do is re-mkdir the mount point.

TruckStuff · 06-01-2005, 09:00 AM

NTFS write support is very limited. According to the kernel docs, you can only overwrite files on an NTFS partition if they are the exact same size. So I can't imagine that anything more than the mount folder was deleted.