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Re: Keeping Windows95/98 from seeing Linux drives?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Forrester)
Fri Nov 13 14:38:54 1998
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cc: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Nov 1998 10:15:10 -0900."
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 11:37:43 -0800
From: Rick Forrester <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov>
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rfg@nook.net said:
> John Beck wrote: Wow, is that the "norm"? My win98 has no clue that
> my Linux drives even exist.
> I wonder....if a person was to create msdos partitions, but put Linux
> stuff on it. Example, the /usr is a partition on hda3. But instead
> of type ext2, he makes it type msdos, or vfat or something like that.
> Then it would be *visible* to Windows and Linux too.
> Would it even work? Can an msdos partition/filesystem support Linux
> files, permissions, ownership etc?
> Just curious.
Ramon, my usual approach to this has been to tar/zip any files I want to
pass across a dos disk. The tar name is usually in the 8.3 format and
protects the actual file names/protections.
Best
rickf
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