Is anyone familiar with a utility that can be executed from a flash drive
(filled with portable applications) that will prevent a host computer from
deleting files contained on the removeable drive?
> Is anyone familiar with a utility that can be executed from a flash drive
> (filled with portable applications) that will prevent a host computer from
> deleting files contained on the removeable drive?
What are you talking about? Do you have such an utility? Or
do you want one? AFAIK, flash does not have generic write
protection. Some USB flash keys have a physical swicth, but
by no means all of them.
In article <6a9315F35f85nU2@mid.individual.net>,
Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>Previously Mike S. <retsuhcs@xinap.moc> wrote:
>
>
>> Is anyone familiar with a utility that can be executed from a flash drive
>> (filled with portable applications) that will prevent a host computer from
>> deleting files contained on the removeable drive?
>
>What are you talking about? Do you have such an utility? Or
>do you want one? AFAIK, flash does not have generic write
>protection. Some USB flash keys have a physical swicth, but
>by no means all of them.
I am looking for such a utility for flash drives that lack a hardware
write-protect switch.
> I am looking for such a utility for flash drives that lack a hardware
> write-protect switch.
Did you try TrueCrypt?
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> In article <6a9315F35f85nU2@mid.individual.net>,
> Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>>Previously Mike S. <retsuhcs@xinap.moc> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Is anyone familiar with a utility that can be executed from a flash drive
>>> (filled with portable applications) that will prevent a host computer from
>>> deleting files contained on the removeable drive?
>>
>>What are you talking about? Do you have such an utility? Or
>>do you want one? AFAIK, flash does not have generic write
>>protection. Some USB flash keys have a physical swicth, but
>>by no means all of them.
> I am looking for such a utility for flash drives that lack a hardware
> write-protect switch.
In article <483fb460@127.0.0.1>,
Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am looking for such a utility for flash drives that lack a hardware
>> write-protect switch.
>
>Did you try TrueCrypt?
Yes, but once an encrypted partition is open and accessible to the host
PC, any of the files contained therein can be deleted or modified.
> Yes, but once an encrypted partition is open and accessible to the host
> PC, any of the files contained therein can be deleted or modified.
That's why you should logout, and set proper
permission and ownership in the files.
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Arno Wagner wrote in news:6aa4jkF3675j3U2@mid.individual.net
> Previously Mike S. <retsuhcs@xinap.moc> wrote:
> > In article 6a9315F35f85nU2@mid.individual.net, Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> > > Previously Mike S. <retsuhcs@xinap.moc> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is anyone familiar with a utility that can be executed from a flash drive
> > > > (filled with portable applications) that will prevent a host computer from
> > > > deleting files contained on the removeable drive?
> > >
> > > What are you talking about? Do you have such an utility? Or
> > > do you want one? AFAIK, flash does not have generic write
> > > protection. Some USB flash keys have a physical swicth, but
> > > by no means all of them.
>
> > I am looking for such a utility for flash drives that lack a hardware
> > write-protect switch.
"Mike S." <retsuhcs@xinap.moc> wrote in message news:g1mkut$b6o$1@reader2.panix.com...
>
>
> Is anyone familiar with a utility that can be executed from a flash drive
> (filled with portable applications) that will prevent a host computer from
> deleting files contained on the removeable drive?
>
>
Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) wrote in news:483ff58f@127.0.0.1
> > Yes, but once an encrypted partition is open and accessible to the host
> > PC, any of the files contained therein can be deleted or modified.
>
> That's why you should logout, and set proper
> permission and ownership in the files.
And how will that prevent the owner to delete or modify or write to it?
Write-protecting a flash drive 
Linear Mode
