Re: msdos partition and permissions

Miguel Cruz (mnc@diana.law.yale.edu)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 01:06:12 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Ken Lai wrote:
> Is there a way to set different permissions or ownerships for directories
> on a msdos partition?

Not that I know of. The FAT filesystem doesn't have room for this
information, so Linux would have to keep its own database which somehow
magically mirrored the FAT structure - even if the latter were modified
behind Linux's back.

I think you'll probably have to wait until there is R/W NTFS support - or
perhaps there's a way to get DOS to mount ext2fs partitions? I don't
know of one though.

miguel