Re: Disk partiotioning advice
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, aphro wrote:
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: michf >If not, how do I mount a windows partiton with write permision to regular
: michf >users? (or a specific user), and is it posible to use a windows partition
: michf >as the home directory for a user?
:
: you can, but i dont reccomend it. File permissions are not available on
: FAT16/FAT32 file systems. so you'd have no security, anyone could
: read/write/delete anything. you could use the UMSDOS file system, which
: would give experimental support for permissions on a FAT16/32 drive but i
: wouldnt reccomend that either.
Hmm. You can mount a FAT partition so that read and write permissions
are limited by user or group. Check out the gid and uid options under
the FAT section of the mount manpage.
I used to mount my second VFAT partition under my home dir this way; no
one else could access it (other than root). If you're willing to give
up symlinks and the ability to _change_ permissions within that
partition, it works well.
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