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kaye
I was just wondering about something. Try this if you can.
I’m sure you’ve all encountered applications which you don’t really have to install; it comes in a tar.xz file and all you have to do is extract its content to a directory and you can run the program immediately.
My question is why can I extract the content to a directory in the home partition, for instance /home/user/Downloads, and run it successfully, but if I extract the content to a directory in another partition, for instance my /media/data directory which is an NTFS partition, I could not execute the program – right-click -> Open -> Execute does nothing at all.
PPC
I was just wondering about something. Try this if you can.
I’m sure you’ve all encountered applications which you don’t really have to install; it comes in a tar.xz file and all you have to do is extract its content to a directory and you can run the program immediately.
My question is why can I extract the content to a directory in the home partition, for instance /home/user/Downloads, and run it successfully, but if I extract the content to a directory in another partition, for instance my /media/data directory which is an NTFS partition, I could not execute the program – right-click -> Open -> Execute does nothing at all.
I was surprised by that during my first times in Linux- that’s normal. To run a executable file has to have permition to be executed. Put simply Linux file systems does not recognize file attributes that allow application to run in alien file systems, You can store debs,tar, etc in windows partitions, but to execute a application, it has to be in a Linux file system, with the right permissions. Copying a uncompressed application from a ntfs partition to a Linux partition probably will leave you with a file that does not have permition to be executed.
Appimages, at least in MX, can be executed in ntfs partitions, strangely enough.
All other file types than are not applications (documents, movies, sound files, pictures) can be safetly stored and played from non Linux partitions…P.
Anonymous
You have to imagine it like that: what a bicycle rider (== Linux) can start with a space ship (== Windows / Space ship ‘Enterprise’) spare parts?
The difference between the primitive Linux/Unix rights management and NTFS permissions is not as small as in my example but, it gives you some idea. 😉http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs-permissions-acl-use.htm
http://techgenix.com/understanding-windows-ntfs-permissions/
https://www.vyapin.com/blog/understanding-ntfs-permissions-how-to-report-effective-permissions-on-files-and-folders
https://espace.cern.ch/winservices-help/NICESecurityAndAntivirus/NICESecurityHowTo/Pages/ManagingACLSettingPermssion.aspxThe last link has a nice table which shows how primitive the Linux permissions are.
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