Write protection (was: Call for GNU Parted / MIPS partition table testers)

[andreas t]

>--from  Andrew  Clausen  <address@hidden>--
<snip>

> Note:  Parted
>can  run  even  if  it  has  read-only  permission

Ah yes, speaking of write protection. When running Parted on an "image file" 
placed on cdrom Parted tells me that the media is write protected. Nice indeed, 
but is this just a friendly reminder or does Parted actually try to write 
something to the device just by starting it?

regards
Andreas




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