Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home

1999-08-22 Thread John Hasler
Brad writes: > IIRC, this is incorrect. The owner/group of the filesystem is by default > set to the uid and gid of the mounting process (e.g. if you mount as > root.root, the owner/group will be root.root no matter what the ownership > of the mountpoint). The permissions are determined by the umas

Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home

1999-08-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > Just a suggestion since I really don't know much about it, but have you > thought > about UFS? It supposedly let's you have a usable unix partition on a fat > filesystem. > Might solve your problem. > I believe you a

Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home

1999-08-22 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 22 Aug 1999, John Hasler wrote: > John Foster writes: > > Just a word of caution. Linux will read and write to all the windows > > files, but it will only do so as root because the entire windows drive > > has the permissions set by default to root on everyth

Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home

1999-08-22 Thread John Hasler
John Foster writes: > Just a word of caution. Linux will read and write to all the windows > files, but it will only do so as root because the entire windows drive > has the permissions set by default to root on everything. The Windows files have no permissions or ownership, so linux fakes it by g

Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home

1999-08-22 Thread Peter Ross
On 22-Aug-1999, John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Hatton wrote: > > > > I'd like to share user files on my machine between Windows 98 and Linux; > > since Linux can read and write Windows partitions, I was thinking of > > achieving this by mounting a Windows FAT32 partition as /home in

Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home

1999-08-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 09:43:55AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > Dan Hatton wrote: > > > > I'd like to share user files on my machine between Windows 98 and Linux; > > since Linux can read and write Windows partitions, I was thinking of > > achieving this by mounting a Windows FAT32 partition as /ho

Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home

1999-08-22 Thread John Foster
Dan Hatton wrote: > > I'd like to share user files on my machine between Windows 98 and Linux; > since Linux can read and write Windows partitions, I was thinking of > achieving this by mounting a Windows FAT32 partition as /home in my Debian > installation, and the same partition as \Windows\Prof

Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home

1999-08-22 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 03:20:36PM +0100, Dan Hatton wrote: > I'd like to share user files on my machine between Windows 98 and Linux; > since Linux can read and write Windows partitions, I was thinking of > achieving this by mounting a Windows FAT32 partition as /home in my Debian > installation,