On 23-Jan-2012 Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
On 23 January 2012 21:02, Keith Edmunds kae@midnighthax.com wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:04:24 -0000 (GMT), Ted.Harding@wlandres.net said:
so it is (allegedly) mounted rw, and with FS type NTFS,
I haven't used NTFS in a decade, but do you have a kernel that has the capability to write NTFS? For a long time, NTFS was read-only on Linux.
Kubuntu 11.10 can write to ntfs via the fuse lib. Ones before the ntfs-3g stuff didnt allow anyone (even root) to write to NTFS?
Lenny is old?
Regards, Srdjan
AHHH!! It hadn't occurred to me that NTFS might be read-only! It's true that as root I can't write to it, even if mounted RW.
As to the vintage of Lenny:
# uname -a Linux deb2 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Wed Sep 21 04:35:47 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
but the distro is older than that (that was the latest update date). Lenny was apparently first released in Feb 2009, and superseded by Squeeze in Feb 2011. ("deb2" is the short name for the machine).
There are certainly "ntfs" modules for the kernel, but I can't suss out how to access information about whether they permit writing. Some googling suggests that NTFS of recent years is not writable by Linux (unless you install some special software).
Well, having said all that, a bit of light relief (I need it). Maybe some of you have heard of the "Devil's Data Processing Dictionary" (by Stan Kelly-Bootle, McGraw-Hill, 1981). This has some interesting entries:
IBM Irish Business Machines
(Their brand was later poached by an American start-up).
Irish Business Machines first became famous for developing an absolutely secure data storage device, which has totally defeated all attempts by the most ingenious hackers ever since to steal confidential data.
This device is the:
WOM WOM chip (Write-Only Memory).
Then IBM went on to work with the Irish Navy, making very important contributions to the technology incorprated into the Irish Navy's invincible craft, the unsinkable submarine.
(sort of like the unwritable backup disk -- impossible to damage any backed-up data).
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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