[ale] Gotta bea FAQ: Give ordinary users R/W/X access to VFAT partition

Paul Cartwright paul_tbot at pcartwright.com
Sun May 14 09:00:40 EDT 2006


On Sun May 14 2006 8:55 am, Jim wrote:
> I made it vfat when I installed XP. ?I know better than to try to
> write to NTFS. ?I backup anything important on XP and can reinstall
> anytime, so I'm not too concerned about using VFAT. ?I rarely boot
> XP any more, just to run a couple of small apps that I don't have
> adequate replacement for on Linux.

I don't remember a vfat option... likewise, I keep XP around because my 
wife used to use a photo editing program for windows that she got 
comfortable with, and my HP scanner's native software for 
scanning/copying/faxing is windows based...
-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800 



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