On 23 Apr 2006 at 17:12, jdd wrote: > James PEARSON wrote: > > > My problem is that I can't access (r,w) the "/windows/D" partition > > under RC2 because when you create a partition as fat32 during the > > installation, RC2 doesn't "by default" grant r,w rights to the > > fat32 filesystem. This, in my opinion, is a mistake. > > It's _never_ harmless to access a file system out of it own > operating system. Fat 32 is not a Linux filesystem, so > mounting it read only is a good idea.
What did you smoke today? Are you telling us, it's unsafe to write to USB memory sticks using FAT32? We are writing FAT32 for years with Linux. Really! I'm only afraid that's the SuSE solution for the lousy USB write performance introduced in 10.0: No writes, no performance issues ;-) > > that said, I think even that no default mounted system > should be writable without the written permission of the > owner :-) Tell the beginner that he's not the owner of his windows partition... or memory stick > > by default, security first... Well... Ulrich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
