On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Adrien BUSTANY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, let's forget the read only media for now then... > The only downside I see with hidden files is the following usecase : > Tom uses windows, and gives his usb key to Sally > Sally plugs the usb key into her linux system, and changes some sorting > properties. The file manager creates a .directory (or whatever it's called) > file on the usb key. > When Tom gets the usb key back, he sees lot of dot files, and doesn't know > what they're about. > I don't know if dot files are automatically marked as "hidden" in the FAT > sense when using a FAT fs on Linux... How do we address that ?
There is a hidden attribute that should be used on filesystems that support it :) -- Patryk Zawadzki _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
