On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 06:02 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > So ... if your flavour of Windoze can read FAT32, a FAT32 partition > > is a very good idea because all the commonly-available unices can > > read it as well. > > If it can't ... the options aren't so good. I'd think ext2 would > > be the only workable alternative to FAT16, but neither is > > desirable. > > > > BTW, I haven't found one, but does anyone have a way to make WinNT > > read FAT32?
Found that myself: www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml Which allowed me to download "fat32.exe" which allows NT to read/write but not create or format FAT32 partitions. Works OK. > You know, every time I think I'm becoming too cynical about the > Windows world, all I need to do is read a post like this, and remind > myself that it is impossible to be /too/ cynical about Windows. It gets worse. I did some googling about VFAT and unices and found that it is a "feature" of VFAT that all files/directories are seen by unices as root-only access AND that this is immutable in situ. drwxr--r-- 25 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 hdb5 drwxr--r-- 9 root root 16384 Jul 23 23:28 FreeBSD-docs -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 71142 Jul 23 23:28 install-FreeBSD-notes I CAN copy a file (as root) to my personal home directory and (as root) chown and chmod there. I can then deal with the file as I wish. However, saving to the VFAT directory can only be done as root and the permissions then revert to " -rwxr--r- root root". Not nice. So it looks as though ext2 (using explore2fs from Windoze) is the only alternative to fat16. -- Regards, Brian sos-sa.org.au _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
