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Date: | Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:58:46 -0400 |
To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl AT lkcl DOT net> |
From: | Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com> |
Subject: | Re: setup.exe 2.510.2.2, 2.427 and 2.457 consistently failing, on win2000, sp4 |
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At 08:43 PM 9/26/2005, Igor P. wrote: >> i've tried (to my detriment because it is a one-way process >> where i will never be able to reliably gain read-write access >> to the drive, or recovery process on linux) converting the >> filesystem from FAT32 to NTFS. > >Ouch. You have my sympathies, though NTFS is a much more feature-rich >filesystem that is better supported by Cygwin. If you want to make sure >you have read-write access to the drive, I suggest "taking ownership" of >all files/directories you want to be able to write to. Once the files are >owned by you, you can change the ACLs appropriately. I think the OP was lamenting that he would no longer have read/write access to this partition from Linux, though maybe I misinterpreted the intent. If not, the OP may want to check out: <http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/> <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6261> -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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