[Linux-Anyway] Re: On hdb
- From: Horror Vacui <horrorvacui@xxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 21:48:15 +0100
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 04:01:23 -0800 (PST)
Meph wrote:
> Don't know if this is how it's supposed to be in slack, but hdb
> won't allow me to change ownership of files. It may be that it's
> in vfat, as it came from a W98 box, & I ~can~ repartition &
> format it ext2 or 3, if that'll fix it, but I don't know that
> either.
>
> Anyway, this is the line in fstab:
>
> /dev/hdb1 /backup vfat umask=0,silent,rw 1 0
>
> Is there anything else which would allow it to be up to me who
> owns what?
Nay. FAT has no concept of file ownership or permissions, so as long it
is FAT, every file is open to access from anybody who has any access at
all. If you want access control, you have to change it to ext 2 or 3,
which will of course let you set permissions. But this will of course
prevent any MS OS from reading those partitions as well. NTFS has
permissions, but in most cases you have read only access with Linux.
Cheers
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