two questions

[Joshua Bergland]

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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