When you're accessing a Windows-produced NTFS file in Linux, there is no Windows, only a Linux-mounted filesystem which holds that file. Similarly, when you're

When you're accessing a Windows-produced NTFS file in Linux, there is no Windows, only a Linux-mounted filesystem which holds that file. Similarly, when you're accessing a Linux-produced FAT32* file in Windows, there is no Linux, only a Windows-mounted filesystem which holds that file. In other words, a file is merely a file, and contained in a filesystem. If you can mount and access the filesystem, you can do anything you want with that filesystem, even up to deleting files contained within it. * Windows can only read Microsoft filesystems, so the Linux-produced filesystem has to be one that Windows knows about.