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Why does Linux still use the UNIX file permissions on a FAT file system? Shouldn't it use the FAT file attributes instead?...
- 01-13-2005 #1Linux Newbie
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Linux doesn't support FAT file attributes
Why does Linux still use the UNIX file permissions on a FAT file system? Shouldn't it use the FAT file attributes instead?
- 01-13-2005 #2Linux Guru
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by FAT attributes, do you mean handling files the way windows does?
- 01-13-2005 #3Linux Newbie
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I don't know much about the various filesystems, but I thought that FAT, NTFS, ext2, etc, are only responsible for placing files on the physical disk and recording their size attributes, not their permission settings.
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Er, now that I think about it, that doesn't make sense, because a file can still be zero bytes long and have permissions. So does that mean that the filesystem can store various arbitrary attributes about each file and it's up to the OS to make sense of them?\"Nifty News Fifty: When news breaks, we give you the pieces.\" - Sluggy Freelance
- 01-13-2005 #4Linux Engineer
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mmmmk! Whats the question actually?
the security from linux is different from windows no matter whats the file system! FAT isnt owned by noone, its a file system...
as for the security, I suspect that you've mounted the drive without giving it access to the users... please post the reading on this command so we can help a little further
Code:cat /etc/fstab
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- 01-14-2005 #5Linux Guru
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That's not what he's asking at all.
All he's saying is that he can't figure out why they use traditional Unix file attributes (UID, GID, etc.) on the FAT fs instead of Windows attributes.
- 01-14-2005 #6Linux Engineer
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EDIT : Mabye user222 could be a little more specific
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- 01-14-2005 #7Linux Newbie
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FAT file attributes=Read Only; Archive; Hidden; System (the ones in DOS and Windows)
Originally Posted by UgoDeschamps EDIT : Mabye user222 could be a little more specific
- 01-18-2005 #8Linux User
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Oh, I am game, Because Linux is Unix based? Put a DOS disk in, can you read it? I do not understand the question.
- 01-24-2005 #9Linux Guru
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linux can read just about every fs out there if the suport is in the kernel far it....though it cant write to some(NTFS comes to mind) though there is a package/app that lets you write to ntfs i just cant remember the name of it at this time....ask WaterSoul
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Are you thinking of Captive-NTFS?
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