On 14/06/2008, Bevin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've given up on trying to remove the "cd" component.
> On reflection, the fact that it shows up as two separate devices (scd
> and sdd) implies that it is something in the hardware.
> I've also had a go with MS Vista and XP with the same
Thanks Dan, I understand now.
I might pass those options through fstab. The best thing for me to do is
to format the the drive to EXT3 I have found a couple of programs that
allow you to access EXT3 partitions within Windows XP (check out the
link below). I understand that Windows XP understand
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Liam Higgins wrote:
> Hello Everyone.
> I'm trying to chown a user to be the owner of a directory mounted on an
> NTFS volume. The command completes successfully but when I go back to
> check if the change was successful the owner and group are still
Hello Everyone.
I'm trying to chown a user to be the owner of a directory mounted on an
NTFS volume. The command completes successfully but when I go back to
check if the change was successful the owner and group are still root
with rwxrwxrwx set. Is this a limitation on ntfs-g volumes ? Or is
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 22:25 +1000, Daniel Mons wrote:
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> Bevin Watson wrote:
> > delete the files from it. It seems the simplest thing is to just
> > reformat the whole device. However, I'm getting a little out of my
> > league thinking about pa
have a look here http://www.u3.com/uninstall/
I've used it a few times to remove the bootable CD partition
Norm
Bevin Watson wrote:
> I've given up on trying to remove the "cd" component.
> On reflection, the fact that it shows up as two separate devices (scd
> and sdd) implies that it is some
I've given up on trying to remove the "cd" component.
On reflection, the fact that it shows up as two separate devices (scd
and sdd) implies that it is something in the hardware.
I've also had a go with MS Vista and XP with the same result.
I think I'll just happily take the 500Mb and teach my son
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Owen Townend wrote:
> This is overkill here, there is no inherant security or other risk in
> leaving the data unscrubbed. This should be sufficient:
> sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd bs=512 count=1
Agreed. And it's a heck of a lot quicker.
> The
