[ale] Gotta bea FAQ: Give ordinary users R/W/X access to VFAT partition

[Geoffrey]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sun May 14 2006 8:27 am, Geoffrey wrote:
>>> I'm running XP & SUSE 10.0 but my C drive is NTFS:
>>> /dev/hda2            /windows/C           ntfs      
>>> ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
>>>
>>>
>>> is yours NTFS??
>> You do know that you don't want to attempt to write to NTFS from
>> Linux right?
> 
> right, that's why I was asking.
> I always thought the default partition for XP was NTFS, or FAT. I'm not 
> familiar with VFAT. Is there a way to change NTFS to VFAT?

Not that I know of.  Your best bet is to have an intermediary 
destination that is formatted such that both Windows and Linux can write 
to it, that would be fat, vfat, dos.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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