I have a 4GB thumb drive that I have formatted with two partitions: #1 is 100MB with vfat format #2 is all the rest with ext4 format
I want to set permissions so that I can read/write on partition #1 on both my Squeeze computer and on a Windows box, both as a non-privileged user. The last time that I ever had any real contact with Windows was in the early days of Windows95, back in the last century. I know that back then there was not much that one could do to make this data interchange 'user friendly'. Has anything changed? Or do I still have to use root to write on a vfat partition? I wouldn't even bother to ask except I read in man-pages, for things related to mount, that a distinction is sometimes made among 'user', 'users', and the 'owner of the device'. So, I think maybe some software has been written to clean up this mess, but probably not. So, has there been improvement? On the other hand, I have no problem with partition #2. It behaves as it should under Squeeze, and Windows does not give any hint that it knows of its existence, Which is OK for me. But I would like to have a better way to move data on and off the vfat partition, if such a way actually exists. Ideas? Information? TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140316022941.ga26...@big.lan.gnu
