That makes sense. Thanks muchly-- Andrew
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 16:04, Michael L Torrie wrote: > On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 15:55, Andrew Hunter wrote: > > Hi. I encountered a problem, and a solution, but I don't understand why > > it worked. Namely, I have attempted to run bin files (for example, to > > install Java for Mozilla from Sun) and failed. I was told that I was > > not authorized, although I was logged in as root. The files was stored > > on a mounted FAT32 partition. I copied the file over to the Linux > > partition and ran it without any trouble. The problem is resolved, but > > I am now curious as to why it was a problem to begin with. Any ideas? > > > > vfat and other windows file formats have no concept of the bits that > ext3 and standard unix file systems use to mark files as executable and > so forth. Thus no file on a windows drive is ever executable to linux. > In some ways this is a safety feature since windows drives have no > security features. It may be possible to convince linux that every file > is executable on a fat32 partition, but I've never seen this. You could > use umsdos on top of fat32 which adds some thunking layers to implement > unix permissions, but there will be complications with unix long-file > names not generating fat32 long file names and vice versa. > > > > Many thanks-- > > Andrew > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > newbies mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
