unix permissions on fat WAS Transfer home directory?

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Author: JT Moree
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Old-Topics: Re: Transfer home directory?
Subject: unix permissions on fat WAS Transfer home directory?
Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> I bet unison would work well for this. :-)
>
> If you are transferring via a fat drive (USB thumb, etc.) try using tar or
> some other archive utility. This helps preserve permissions so all your JPEGS
> don't end up as executables. Fat seems to want to make everthing executable.


I believe this is because fat has no permissions so the kernel has to
make them up when you deal with fat files. There are options to the
mount command so you can set ownership and permissions on fat files.

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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.

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