On Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:18:29 PM Basil Chupin wrote:
But it does sound a bit paradoxical to have these masks applying to windows partitions
The only paradox is applying restrictive masks that require visit to http://en.opensuse.org/NTFS and manually change /etc/fstab file to be able to use hard disk space on Windows partition. It is scary how easy is to render fstab useless. You added that partition to file system, to make access easy, and then you scrambled permissions without safe way to enable them, where safe is understandable, with sufficient warnings. (Over)Protecting users from themselves is doomed to fail. Those that know computers will be annoyed. They will realize that from Linux they see stuff that is hidden in Windows, and that they have to be careful. Those that don't are doing irresponsible things everywhere (in Windows, cell phones, smartphones, Macs, on the street, in the house). In other words, you make yourself look bad without any positive effect on majority of users. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org