On Sunday 30 September 2001 14:37, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> One thing that I noticed in the Mandrake 8.1 installer, is that it does
> not mount NTFS partitions by default. I think this should be done by
> default, as is done for FAT32 partitions.
>
> When you explicitely mount the NTFS partitions yourself in the Mandrake
> installer, the partitions are only accessible as root, as user you get
> "Permission denied". I think this should be changed too, or at least,
> there should be an option in diskdrake where you can easily choose to
> make them accessible to all users or root only.
>

Does no one realize that there are THREE variations of the NTFS and that one 
of them is readable (and experimentally writeable) by linux, and more work on 
read/write for the newer two is likely to be stalled by threats or the 
potential for threats of legal action?

Microsoft is not going to give us a chance to take their market away, not 
that we are really trying.  We're about choices, but we are being blocked 
from staying compatible by Microsoft paranoia.

Civileme

> I think these options would be very interesting, considering that more
> and more new Linux users will have NTFS partitions in the future.
>
> Frederik Himpe

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