Message-ID: <3C5ECFA0.2090405@mrj412.com> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:11:54 -0600 From: Joshua Bergland <kclug@mrj412.com> Subject: Re: two questions
Its my understanding that NTFS partitions are still experimental in
Linux, and it is only safe to mount your NTFS partition in read-only mode.
Josh Bergland
Gene Dascher wrote:
>>I have asked my second question before but have not gotten an answer, so
>>I'll try again. How do I uninstall a program that was NOT installed via
>>RPM? The program in question is Quake III for linux.
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>Is there an install script that you ran? Is the script a shell script? If
>so, then you can look at the script and see what files it put where. Then
>you can go remove them. When I install anything non RPM related, I always
>create a log file of the output so I know what files I can safely remove if
>I need to.
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>As far as the fstab question, you can edit /etc/fstab. I can't tell you
>what parameters to use for NTFS, but if you know that, you can just follow
>the format of the file to create the new entry. To test the file before
>rebooting, you can run mount -a, which will mount all unmounted filesystems
>listed in fstab.
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>Gene
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