Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > wsa declaimed: > > And another thing...i also noticed that on mounted vfat windows partitions > > every file and every directory now gets marked as executable... > > Is this normal? > The 'ls -l' output for vfat is mostly bogus, the vfat file system > doesn't really have those properties. I wouldn't trust anything except > for the filename & modify date.
True. I think it's a "feature" of the kernel's FAT driver to make everything +x. You'd probably want to pass mount a noexec option to prevent execution of any of the files on the partition. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
