Submitted 19-Jul-00 by Seak, Teng-Fong:
> 1) to mount these vfat partitions with full permissions by defaults,
> or
> 2) to provide a check box to mount vfat (well, I mean vfat, fat and
> dos) partitions with full access during Installation of Linux.
I can see potential for problems here from the same newbies that it
seeks to help. Imagine if you will:
Joe User is running Linux "just to get his feet wet." He has a
Win-Printer, and cannot print using Linux. He creates a grocery list
using his favorite Linux editor, and before leaving for the store
reboots to print the list.
(1) Notepad will scramble it because it's too dumb to to lf-crlf
conversion (and it will be his default application to print from).
(2) If he has conversion set up to avoid problem 1, when he saves an
ISO (as an example) to his VFAT partition, it will get the same
conversion and ruin the image.
Both problems would be blamed on Linux.
> By the way, there's also the "exec" option for every vfat
> partition to indicate that all files in the partition are executable.
> I don't think this choice really makes sense because Dos/Win binary
> aren't executable under Linux. Marking them as executable is just
> misleading.
They are! See the kernel compile option for support for miscellaneous
binaries. Essentially you can set it up to automagically launch
dosemu, wine, or any other interpreter/wrapper for these binaries.
(It's a bit involved, but possible, though I personally wouldn't do
it.)
Also, one *could* keep shell scripts or even linux binaries in a
vfat partition. When I first made the transition to linux, I had
several shell scripts in a Windows partition that I used for cygwin.
Symlinks in ~/bin gave me easy access to them from linux as well.
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