Comment on Every time i have to use windows again my IQ slips a point or two

DarienGS@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• stappern@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  this is not the system folder, different drive, old windows install

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  • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    If you try to access an old Linux install you could run into the exact same problem. Both Linux and Windows nowadays use filesystems with permissions embedded into them, so if the user on the new install doesn’t match the old one you’ll have a problem.

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    • stappern@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      but i just tried i can delete system folders from a different linux drive with no problems

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      • redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Certainly not without using sudo right? It’s the same in the windows land, the UAC dialog is windows’ equivalent of sudo.

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      • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        chmod -R 777 ./, baby!!!

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Well then change the owner and toss the old folders. Or just format it?

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    • stappern@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      i just deleted what i needed with another os, i didnt want to format it i needed some space and wanted to keep some folders

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  • Aasikki@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Why wouldn’t you just format the drive if it had an old windows install?

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    • stappern@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      wanted to keep some folders

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      • Confused_Emus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Back up the folders and format the disk. If you’re deleting system files and folders, you’re clearly not running the OS from this other disk. Why waste the space on unneeded system files?

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• vojel@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  laughs in Linux…

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  • fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    laughs because it has the same level of protection as other OSs and thus is quite secure in that regard, right?

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    • vojel@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Laughs in Linux because if I really want to mess things up it wont stop me unless I am not root. Administrator on Winshit means nothing at all, no control over your system.

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      • fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        You do realize that in this very post they explain that if you mount an old linux drive with another user, you can’t delete stuff either until you remove the flags or change the owner of the old drives’ files?

        You can do the same in windows, too.

        They are not trying to access their own Windows folder, but that of an old drive.

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• LoafyLemon@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  This seems to be an external drive, not the boot drive.

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