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05-31-2005, 05:41 AM
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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Vice City
Distribution: Suse 10.1
Posts: 30
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NTFS rewrite?
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
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05-31-2005, 05:48 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Munich, Germany
Distribution: Slackware 10.1
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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.
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05-31-2005, 05:36 PM
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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Vice City
Distribution: Suse 10.1
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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...
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06-01-2005, 08:15 AM
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Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Munich, Germany
Distribution: Slackware 10.1
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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.
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06-01-2005, 10:00 AM
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Registered: Apr 2002
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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.
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