On Friday 21 March 2003 11:38 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: > Kaj, > > Try to pass an scandisk to your windows partition, I had > a similar problem long times ago due to disk-error; > mandrake couldn't write in the partition but after pass > an scandisk windows detected several errors and repaired > it. Until that moment mandrake could again write on the > windows partition. >
Well Francisco, thanks. But I don't have Windows or Scandisk. I don't think that's the issue. What I mean is : a FAT32 filesystem (windows) is not supposed to have any security at all. The problem - if you can call it that - is within the Mandrake security system : Normally a *root* account can do anything, including destroying everything. However, Mandrake has added some restrictions to protect you from yourself. One of those is the msec package. Another is Shorewall. Obviously it is a Mandrake problem. Of course a FAT32 filesystem can't be secure. But I think the Mandrake-team figured that Windows-refugees needed some protection against themselves : not loosing their *precious* ( sorry, Tolkien-addicted) files. So, my guess is that Mandrake took some - overly - precautions not to alter Windows file systems. I I can't - for the **** of me - figure out how they did it ? But it works : I can't do my root-jobs on a Windows-partition ! Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 - kernel 2.4.19.24 Brought to you from my 100 % Micro$oft-free computer.
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