[wplug] /home fs permissions?

[T Quine]

Since vfat doesn't really know anything about unix permissions, you can't do 
things like chown with files on that filesystem.  You could mount it with 
the mount option "uid=<UID of juan2>" (insert the correct UID, the number 
corresponding to your userid in /etc/passwd).

I think that it'd probably be better if you had a unix-like filesystem for 
your home directory, and have the windows partition mounted elsewhere, like 
/windows or /mnt/windows, or even /home/juan2/windows.  You could still 
access the files, and it wouldn't break things.


-QUINE-



>From: Juan Zuluaga <jz31416 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: [wplug] /home fs permissions?
>Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:04:03 -0800 (PST)
>
>Hello,
>sorry for the basic question,
>
>I have this problem,
>as juan2 user (or under any other user name), I have
>no write permissions in my /home/juan2 directory.
>$ls -la /home
>drwxr-xr-x   7 root    root   16384   Dec 31  1969 ./
>drwxr-xr-x  19 root    root    4096   Nov 30 01:17 ../
>drwxr-xr-x   2 root    root    8192   Nov 15 20:32
>juan/
>drwxr-xr-x   3 root    root    8192   Nov 29 23:01
>juan2/
>drwxr-xr-x   2 root    root    8192   Nov 30 01:11
>juan4/
>(...)
>
>Even as root I can not change ownership or group of
>those directories.
>root at drakstar:/home/juan2# chown juan2 xpm1.tgz
>chown: xpm1.tgz: Operation not permitted
>
>
>My /home directory is located in a vfat partition,
>since I want to easily use those files with Windows95
>applications running in the same computer.
>
>$ cat /etc/fstab
>(...)
>/dev/hda8   /home   vfat   defaults  1   0
>(...)
>
>I would assume that "defaults" in the options filed
>gives me read-and-write permissions. I guess that if I
>were the only user, I could specify the corresponding
>values for uid, gid and mode in the options field in
>fstab.
>Is there a general solution, for allowing rw
>permissions in a vfat /home  ?
>(my computer is running Slackware 7.1;
>my hda hardrive is a 8 gig Western Digital that can
>not be recognized by the mb bios, and needs EZ-drive
>to be booted;
>I use loadlin to boot Linux)
>Thanks!
>

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