On Friday 16 May 2008 12:19, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 08:24 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > FAT is a defacto standard for portable storage devices. > > Not true anymore, the external disks I have seen that have > 300 GB came > with NTFS. Anyway, external disks may be a different topic altogether, > but what about the Windows system partition that Ubuntu mounts writable > by default (IIRC)?
OK. So then it's a mistake to assume anything about the target O/S based on they file system type. There was recently some discussion about this on #ubuntu-motu IRC and it seems pretty difficult to actually do this reliably and completely. Scott K -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
