Re: Question about mounting MS-DOS partition

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, William R Pentney wrote:

> me with the installation, said that it's not a good idea to
> store and run Linux programs on the MS-DOS partition. Is this true, and if
> so, why?
> 

Because only root can write to an MSDOS partition and you do not want to
be root doing normal things. In other words, you should only be root when
you have to do some administrative task that requires root and then you go
back to being a user again. Users can not write to MSDOS.



George Bonser

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