29 Sep
2005
29 Sep
'05
02:32
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Had another thought. I backed up my /home partition using Konqueror. I do not remember whether as root or my own user. I also don't remember whether KMail was running at that time or not.
But: If KMail had been running, would that have prevented the mail files from being copied? In Windows, when a particular file is in use, I am prevented from deleting it but not from copying it. I wonder how Linux works in this matter.
Kmail will prevent you from copying or moving files when it is running. I have also had a problem with the group permssions being changed without my intervention. Rich