Guest MasterPi Posted June 6, 2004 Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 Is there anyway to make your home directories readable from windows? They like to have priveleges and throw some wierd errors at you if you try to make them on FAT32 drives. Is there any way to emulate priveleges on FAT32 or will linux use NTFS's privelege system by itself. I run a dual boot with ME/Mandy 10.0 (possibly XP soon) and im trying to make my home directories readable by both systems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted June 6, 2004 Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 Now thats asking for trouble. I bet windows will constantly throw errors at you when trying to read anything other then a Fat or NTFS partition. Even if you do make the linux install on a Fat partition it will more then likely be extreamly unstable and I would never trust M$ to make changes to a linux drive. Heck ect2 formating is better than a FAT partition and its unstable. Why not make a Fat partition that you use for both OS's? I do this and everything is just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Why not make a Fat partition that you use for both OS's? I do this and everything is just fine. That seems to be the standard around here. I haven't heard of anyone using /home from windows or writing to NTFS from Linux either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Part of the problem is tha t 1. FAT32 is not a very advanced Filing system. So Linux can't apply permissions as it normally would. 2. NTFS is only supported with READ-ONLY. If you make it WRITE-ONLY, the support isn't guaranteed. So, again, its not supported enough to trust it. MS can make changes to NTFS in any update. Ya never know.. So the issue is not with Linux, its with the filing system's capabilities. There may be some products that allow you to view EXT or EXT2 or other popular linux filing systems from windows, but never found anything that was worth the time.. So, unless you find out something more recent, you are kinda stuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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