[buug] Partition Sharing

[Nicolai Rosen]

So put them on an ext2 partition. Use Disk Image Viewer,
http://www.softwarium.com/divwin.html. Problem solved.

On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Zeke Krahlin wrote:
> I would like to share a common partition for my data files. The
> partition is "vfat" (Windoze98), and all files are plain text (tons of
> notes and html files). I do not have any binaries on that partition.
> 
> Using Linux (Mandrake 6.1), I want to be able to, as user (not root),
> open and edit and save these files onto a vfat partition. As root, I
> have tried "chown" on these vfat files, but got only failed results,
> like so:
> 
>    Operation not permitted.
> 
> Now, that makes sense not to run a Linux command to alter files, on a
> vfat partition. But I'm hoping there is a work-around...other than just
> staying in "root" mode.
> 
> My present method leaves much to be desired, which is: having all files
> from vfat copied to ext2...and whenever I edit a file on ext2, I copy
> it over to vfat. And when I change any file in Windoze, I must
> remember--once I'm back in Linux--as root, to copy such files from vfat
> to ext2. This, of course, makes it all too easy to forget to copy any
> changed files. 
> 
> Much better to share these files in both OS's...until said time I can
> completely dump Windoze (which is not possible for at least a few more
> months). TIA.
> 
> 
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