Strange Ubuntu/Vista Compatibility Bug, Solved 140
Walter Vos writes "Since I've been running Vista and Ubuntu in dual boot with a shared FAT32 partition for my personal folders, I've been seeing some strange compatibility issues between these two operating systems. Somehow Vista locks the folders on the FAT32 partition that are used for folders like Documents, Downloads, etc. A blogpost I wrote gives a detailed description of the problem and a fix for it."
Re:FAT32 (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:As my grandmother used to say (Score:1, Insightful)
I thought was supposed to be "red and green should never be seen?"
Re:FAT32 (Score:2, Insightful)
As far as I know they're only ext2 drivers. Of coarse, you can usually mount ext3 as ext2 without any issues.
I suspsect that... (Score:4, Insightful)
Linux newbie finds FAT32 file perms don't work... (Score:3, Insightful)
... gets page linked from slashdot.
Well, at least I adblock.
Just Delete The Egomaniac. (Score:4, Insightful)
Hmm, I'm having a problem with permissions between Vista and Ubuntu. What should I do?
Adopt a philosophy of ideological inflexibility, intolerance, ignorance, immaturity, and narcissism?
...or...
Run a shell script or two?
Decisions, decisions...
Re:you are hollow, (Score:4, Insightful)
It's lame that people feel like they're being held hostage by an operating system that they don't otherwise want, and it's lame that MS is making money off that. If you actually want Windows for one reason or another, then it's not lame at all.
Re:FAT32 (Score:5, Insightful)
Lack of Free (or even shared-source) drivers (Score:3, Insightful)
It's not necessarily you being lame, it's either game developers being lame by not porting their games
Up until very recently, it was also video card manufacturers being lame by not making OpenGL drivers for Linux that the community can help debug. But ATI, one of the two makers of chipsets for video cards,[1] plans to stop being lame [linux.com]. And some people would claim that it's distribution maintainers being lame by not providing more thorough binary compatibility across multiple families of GNU/Linux distributions. ("What's an LSB again?")
[1] Intel GMA is not available on a card.
Re:IFS Kit; Vista 64 Test Mode (Score:2, Insightful)
At least $200! Thats almost two developer hours of money!
Pretty certain you can chuck whatever cert you want in the trusted root store / disable this behaviour.
Re:IFS Kit; Vista 64 Test Mode (Score:3, Insightful)
At least $200! Thats almost two developer hours of money!
In what city of what state/province of what country?
Re:FAT32 (Score:2, Insightful)
These are the file attributes FAT knows:
- Read
- Write
- System
No, it's