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

[Jim]

Paul Cartwright wrote:

>On Sun May 14 2006 8:27 am, Geoffrey wrote:
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>>>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?
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>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?
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I made it vfat when I installed XP.  I know better than to try to write 
to NTFS.  I backup anything important on XP and can reinstall anytime, 
so I'm not too concerned about using VFAT.  I rarely boot XP any more, 
just to run a couple of small apps that I don't have adequate 
replacement for on Linux.

Jim.