Dunno about the nonsense you talk about. I kind of like being able to
read from my vfat sections without mounting them up. If I want to work
with windows, I boot to windows and download directly to windows. I have
few reasons to transfer files to the win98 (vfat) partition. So there.
If you don't like it customize it after you figure out how to do it.
Sounds like you bitch a lot when you get frustrated on the learning
curve. Something nice to know about yourself don't you think. Something
to notice and then you don't have to lay it on someone else - your
frustration that is. Are you an engineer by any chance?
Tom
Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> Wayne,
>
> If you carefully observe what happens when you mount and umount a
> vfat partition you will discover that the at mount time the mount
> point has had its ownership and groupship changed to the user who
> performed the mount, and that the permissions are changed so that the
> user who mounted the partition is the ONLY user permitted to write to
> it. You will also observe that permission to change anything about
> this mount point will be denied while anything is mounted to it.
>
> This has the effect of prohibiting anyone but the mounting user to
> write to that partition, presumably because FAT was never intended to
> support multiple concurrent asynchronous writes.
>
> This fact makes an absolute nonsense of Mandrake 7.0-2's attempt to
> pre-mount all the vfat partitions at boot time. To reduce their
> embarrassing techno-shame, Mandrake should remove all that, and also
> the crazily-named DOS mount points (in favour of mount points called
> C.D.E.F.G, etc. under a /mnt/local directory, to distinguish the
> local C, D, E drives from other nfs-mounted C, D, E drives from other
> PCs on your network). These would be mounted to
> /mnt/<machine-name>/C, D, E mount points).
>
> Wayne wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to change permissions of a directory on my system so I can use
> > it to install etc programs into. I cannot get it to work though.
> > I have Linux install on the 1st partition of my HD, Linux swap on #2, and
> > Windows on #3. I have a primary slave installed which I use for all my
> > Wind'ohs games. I then have a 6GB secondary master installed on which I
> > would like to keep my temp files, installed progs etc. Under /dev/hdd1,
> > the owner of th device is listed as me (wapether) not root. However, the
> > directories are listed as root owned.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
