On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:03:41 +1100, Rod Butcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello sluggers, I've moved an Apache intranet I run on my home office > from an ext3 to a vfat partition. I did this by copying the DocumentRoot > using nautilus and changing the conf files. Apache now returns "You > don't have permission to access /bookmarks.htm on this server" to the > browser. > I don't have this problem if I copy the webserver directory to another > ext3 partition - seemingly proving that I'm changing the necessary conf > info. > So - is there something different about ext and vfat security, > necessitating some more sophisticated directory copy process ?
vfat don't support the same security features of ext3. ie I don't believe you can chmod or chown directories on a vfat filesystem, which means its not going to work :) Why did you put it on a vfat anyways.. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
