Strange Ubuntu/Vista Compatibility Bug, Solved

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."

Comments

Just Delete The Egomaniac.

[Anonymous Coward]

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,

[grantek]

It's lame because games should work under linux. It's not necessarily you being lame, it's either game developers being lame by not porting their games, Windows being lame that it's hard for the Wine crew to implement it with the exactness needed for games, or both, if the lame games are using bits of Windows that are lame when stuff like OpenGL could help.

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

[kiddygrinder]

ext2 works pretty well for ext3 drives so they don't care enough to do it. Anyone who does care about ext3 that much i'd guess probably doesn't care that much about windows.