[KLUG Members] home directory and vfat

Adam Tauno Williams adam at morrison-ind.com
Fri Feb 18 11:13:22 EST 2005


> > Is it possible to use VFAT partition to store user home directoy? What are
> > the entry I need to enable in /etc/fstab for vfat partion to enable access
> > to VFAT partiontion per user and per group base?
> Probably not a good idea.  VFAT doesn't support permissions, so EVERY
> user would have READ and WRITE access to EVERY FILE under /home in ALL
> OTHER USERS HOME directories, not just their own.

Not to mention that VFAT is really slow.
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