FAT32 is easily usable by both Windows and Linux. But it suffers from the same shortcomings Peter mentioned. It has no concept at all of file permissions, so copying anything to it is going to result in the destination having permissions set to whatever the default is for that mount point.
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 15:29 +1100, [email protected] wrote: > Hum! Isn't there a common file system (FAT32, has been suggested to me) > whereby I can use Windows and Linux? Before I lost it, I had an antiquated > MP3 player that I'd cleaned out and used as a thumb drive and it handled > both OSs without complaint. > > Bill Bennett. > > Peter Chubb wrote: > > > Sounds like you have a DOS file system on there -- it doesn't \ > > obey UNIX file permissions. You can reformat the drive as, > > say, ext2, but this will make the resulting filesystem unusable on any > > platform other than linux. > > > > To try this, do > > mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sdb1 (or whatever the name of the drive is). > > Not while the drive is mounted! > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
