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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 2015-04-21 20:44, Israel skrev:
> On 04/21/2015 01:26 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> Den 2015-04-21 20:21, Israel skrev:
>>> On 04/21/2015 01:13 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>>> Den 2015-04-21 18:41, Israel skrev:
>>>>> On 04/21/2015 09:03 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>>>>> Den 2015-04-21 04:07, Israel skrev:
>>>>>>>>> ..
>>>>>> ... 
>>> Hi Nio,
>>> can we not write to the Windows partition?  I don't fully understand why
>>> we would *not* want to write to it.  If it is a separate /dev/sdX it
>>> should be fine to write to, but we cannot write to the /dev/sdX we are
>>> copying.  That is the only real limitation I see.  But if you have
>>> really good reasoning that I am missing (I dislike using windows... so I
>>> rarely ever do it unless I have to update BIOS or defrag, etc..)
>>
>> Hi again,
>>
>> In installer mode, yes we are happy to write to a Windows partition
>> (overwriting Windows). But in tarball making mode, I don't think we find
>> a suitable system source unless there is a linux filesystem.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
> Hi Nio,
> Oh, I see for the source..
> I was thinking along the lines of destination... 
> I am still thinking about giving the users the ability to mount drives
> from zmktbl like we had talked about earlier in the 'lsblker' process :)
> Yes you should hide it, but if we do end up adding a mount option, if
> you give something like:
> 
> while test $# -ne 0
>  do
>   case $1 in
>     write-mounter)
>     # display windows
>     ;;
>     read-mounter)
>     # hide windows
>     ;;
>     esac
> done
> 
> This way if you or I decide to add the mounting ability we don't have to
> recode... it will be there already.
> 

Hi again,

Yes, I remember, and I see the benefit of that.

Best regards
Nio