You must have had some sad experience with an engineer? Of what variety
since there are more kinds of engineers than there are Linux distros.
"Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Berkley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] File Permissions
> 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.
