Can't allow partion permissions for a vfat partition, mounted as my home folder

DrD · 05-29-2005, 01:28 PM

Some of you guys at LQ.org are nice, helpfull folk who don't push their opinion on others too much.
Some of you attack as soon as you see somebody doing something you wouldn't do, or doing something in a way that doesn't fit your taste. That sucks. No one wants to listen to somebody who attacks first, no matter how good or bad their ideas might be.
I'm speaking collectively for a reason. I'm not singleing anyone out.

Anyhow, thanks for those whose usefull input helped me edit fstab and gave me ownership and permissionns. I've mounted it now as /media/sharedspace. That works. When I reinstall the OS I can just tar up my home folder and throw it on the shared space. Thanks again.

kornerr · 05-29-2005, 10:26 PM

After using Linux over a year I wonder how people can't know a "mount" command. That's not attack.
Since I see such posts, I understand why Red Hat like distros are not the best choise. And why Slackware, Gentoo, Debian, etc. succeed so much.
Sorry.

Emerson · 05-30-2005, 06:57 AM

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Originally posted by kornerr
After using Linux over a year I wonder how people can't know a "mount" command.

People don't have to conform with your criterion. They have their own interests, different to yours. Some people out there are just Linux Users, not interested in internals. And the LQ is the place where they come for help.

kornerr · 05-30-2005, 10:02 AM

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Some people out there are just Linux Users, not interested in internals. And the LQ is the place where they come for help.

Never thought it this way... that there exist just Linux Users. I thought all "just" users use Windows. That's really sirprisingly to me, it's good though.
Sorry for my words.

zhimsel · 07-26-2006, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Dodgeram01

I went through some of these battles with using vfat myself. Specifically, it's lack of ability for symlinks.

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Originally Posted by DrD

It [vfat] serves as a home folder very usefully - it allows me to use it as my E drive in windows (which I seldom use, but still use). That way I don't need 2 copies of my music, movies, etc on my hard drive.

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Originally Posted by oneandoneis2

Why not have a proper Linux-formatted /home partition, make a separate FAT partition and mount it in /home/yourname/shared or some such?
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Alternatively, there ARE tools available to allow Windows to read ext2 filesystems. You could install that in Windows, and use an ext3 /home

Taking all of these ideas into mind, does anyone know of a file system that both Windows and Linux can access but doesn't have the limitations of vfat (i.e. no symlinks/limited permission options)? I like oneandoneis2's idea of having a "shared" partition between the OSes, so both Linux and Windows can read them, but having it separate from the home dir. I would use an ext3 FS reader for Windows, but that becomes a hassle when I need something from my linux home dir.

Alternatively, does anyone know of a "driver" or "utility" that enables WinXP to read ext3 natively (within explorer), not through a program like explore2fs?