At 11:55 AM 2/7/00 +1300, you wrote:
>PS. Backing up a FAT32 partition under Linux is probably a bad idea. As far
>as I know, there is only read-only support for FAT32, so you may be able to
>back up, but how will you restore?
Are you joking? You can read/write fat32 in Mandrake 6.0 and above.
Probably in all recent linux distributions. I often construct a text file
of notes to myself in linux, save it with a path that leads into a mounted
'doze partition, and then read it in 'doze later, when I need to refer to
list of stuff I've decided I want to download within 'doze for later
transfer back to linux. I also regularly work with documents saved on one
of the 'doze partitions or another to save the space on the relatively
small ext2 partition, which is best used for apps, system files, utilities,
and frequently-accessed stuff, or large clusters of very small files, the
kinds of things that benefit most from ext2's native speed and compact
representation. (Think no cluster wastage.)
>The default permissions are probably something like rwxr-xr-x, so unless you
>want non-root users to write to the partition, you will need to change the
>umask entry in /etc/fstab for that partition
Hm. It should be more configurable IMO, so you can specify that only
directories off the 'doze drive act executable. I.e. it acts like either
-rw-r--r-- or drwxr-xr-x, as appropriate.
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