On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:03:41PM +1100, Rod Butcher 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.

Perhaps you could explain why you would want to do this?

> 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 ?

As other posters have indicated, vfat does not store uid/gid/permission
data about file and directories.

Thanks,
Anand

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