I suspect you can't do that. Certainly if you *could* you lose any form of security on that partition, cos FAT[32] doesn't support UN*X style file permissions There are ext2 drivers available for Win32 I believe, you'd probably be better trying one of them (don't knwo where you can get them from though)

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On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 11:45:33AM -0800, Jon Pennington wrote:

--- James Ogley wrote:

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There are ext2 drivers available for Win32 I believe, you'd probably be better trying one of them (don't knwo where you can get them from though)

This is an interesting thought. Most of the ones I've seen, though, are written as applications instead of drivers, and performance is all but unbearable. You can copy files out of it, yes, so it does "function," but it's not a good idea. Have you seen real Win32 drivers that allow you to mount ext2 filesystems and map them as Windows drives?

Isn't this a job for UMSDOS filesystems..just a thought. -- Regards Cliff

On Friday 02 November 2001 12:04 pm, Chris Roberts wrote:

Can I move my /home filesystem onto an existing FAT32 partition, so that it can be accessed by Win98 - or is there something more basic principle that does not permit this? Fwiw, I'm running SuSE 7.2, but I guess this is rather more fundamental... ;-)

Yes, but your files will be accessible to everyone using the box/LAN. You need change the mount points: use YaST1->Installation settings->Set target partitions/file systems. However, I don't think that this is a good idea and would suggest that you setup another partition for sharing (e.g. /share). Whatever you do, backup /home first. M -- Martin Webster Registered Linux User #230322 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/spider-monkey/ Try my Wiki? http://homepage.ntlworld.com/spider-monkey/wiki.html

At 12:04 11/02/2001 +0000, Chris Roberts wrote:

Can I move my /home filesystem onto an existing FAT32 partition, so that it can be accessed by Win98 - or is there something more basic principle that does not permit this? Fwiw, I'm running SuSE 7.2, but I guess this is rather more fundamental... ;-)

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If you use Explore2fs (assuming you use e2fs and not one of the journaling filesystems) you will be able to access your data files from Windows. You should also be able to write to them and save them. I don't know what happens to permissions when you do. Since I'm my only user, it doesn't matter to me. Explore2fs is a Windows program. The name of the file in Windows is explore2.exe. I don't remember where I got it, but google is your friend. I don't know of anything that can read the journaling fs's. If anyone does, I'd like to know. --doug