Re: Making FAT play nice

2006-02-02 Thread viq
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 02:59, Nick Guenther wrote: > I dual boot OpenBSD with Windows and have a third partition for data > which is mounted on /home. The data partition is FAT32 since that's > the only type that both OSes support well. Just an idea, I didn't try it, but... http://www.fs-drive

Re: Making FAT play nice

2006-02-02 Thread Alexander Hall
Nick Guenther wrote: On 2/1/06, Alexander Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nick Guenther wrote: I dual boot OpenBSD with Windows and have a third partition for data which is mounted on /home. The data partition is FAT32 since that's the only type that both OSes support well. I am not rally h

Re: Making FAT play nice

2006-02-01 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/02/01 16:45, Nick Guenther wrote: > > /dev/wd0p /data msdos rw,-l,-m=777,nodev,nosuid,noauto 0 0 > > You can add switches like "-m" above. > > Ah! Thank you very much. That's exactly what I was looking for. That > little detail isn't explicitly documented anywhere I could see. for future

Re: Making FAT play nice

2006-02-01 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/1/06, Alexander Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Guenther wrote: > > I dual boot OpenBSD with Windows and have a third partition for data > > which is mounted on /home. The data partition is FAT32 since that's > > the only type that both OSes support well. > > I am not rally happy to use

Re: Making FAT play nice

2006-02-01 Thread Alexander Hall
Nick Guenther wrote: I dual boot OpenBSD with Windows and have a third partition for data which is mounted on /home. The data partition is FAT32 since that's the only type that both OSes support well. I am not rally happy to use FAT partitions from OBSD. There has been recently fixed issues, a

Re: Making FAT play nice

2006-01-30 Thread Ted Unangst
On 1/30/06, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My problem, though, is with permissions. If I'm not logged in as root > I can't write on /home which kind of defeats the purpose of reserving > /home for user directories. > > I unmounted /home again and tried to change the permissions on it: >

Re: Making FAT play nice

2006-01-30 Thread Andrew Davies
I can be done, have a look at man mount_msdos that should be all you need it can be done. have a look at the examples in man fstab to see how you use them. On Mon, January 30, 2006 6:59 pm, Nick Guenther said: > So my two questions are: > 1) how can I set the permissions on /home|why can't I set

Making FAT play nice

2006-01-30 Thread Nick Guenther
I dual boot OpenBSD with Windows and have a third partition for data which is mounted on /home. The data partition is FAT32 since that's the only type that both OSes support well. # fdisk wd0 Disk: wd0 geometry: 2432/255/63 [39070080 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starti