James PEARSON wrote:
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:12:54 +0200 jdd
wrote: 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.
1 - it is not mounted read (or write);
if you mount it with the defaults, it will be
2 - if I applied your logic then I would not be able to use my usb key because it is formated fat32 :)
you can setup this as you like, we speak only of defaults
Personally I don't see a file system whether it is fat32, ext2, ext3, jfs, reiserfs, xfs, etc as being a "Linux file system" or windows file system.
some are patented...
I guess the bottom line is that choices have to be made and you can't please everyone. Just the same I logged it as a "bug" because that is what it is for me.
the problem is "defaults", defaults must fit the majority. Making important choices at install time is generally not a good idea, for there are too many things to cope with at the moment. thare could be more interesting options, like having a context menu option to make a partition writable for the session (just an example) and I know the problem. I have to share video files from Linux and Windows and such files can be up to 12Gb, so FAT32 is not a solution :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos