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..
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