On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 14:21, Gordon Shaw Novak wrote: > I have a dual-boot system with Debian and Windows ME. > When I access files from /windows/ , it seems that file names get > shortened and "edited" as seen by Linux; also files created from > Linux sometimes get converted to upper-case on Windows. > Is there a way to make the file names appear unchanged? > I've not had this particular problem.
> Also, I seem to be able to write to /windows/ only from root, > and haven't been able to change the protections. Is there a way > to do that? This is in direct relation to the horrid FAT32 filesystem. There is no concept of users or groups so everyone in Windows is root. When it gets mounted only one user can own the FAT32 filesystem. This leads to the problem you are experiencing. If you are on a single user machine one workaround would be to modify your mount command to contain the uid option. This can be put into fstab as something like uid=500 so that user 500 is the owner of all those files and that user can write to the /windows/ partition. This is problematic on a multiuser system and unfortunately there isn't a good way to get around it. > Many thanks, Gordon > _______________________________________________ > Siglinux mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
