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Re: Write protection (was: Call for GNU Parted / MIPS partition table te
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Andrew Clausen |
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Re: Write protection (was: Call for GNU Parted / MIPS partition table testers) |
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Mon, 3 Dec 2001 05:53:23 +1100 |
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On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 12:45:15PM -0000, andreas t wrote:
> > Note: Parted can run even if it has read-only permission
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> 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?
It attempts to open the file for read-write access, but doesn't write
anything.
(In unix, you have to say what you want to do, before you actually
do it)
Andrew