FAT32, NTFS and local permissions

From: Mark P (greymat@my-deja.com)
Date: 09/04/02 

From: greymat@my-deja.com (Mark P)
Date: 3 Sep 2002 21:17:01 -0700

I would like to set permissions on local logical drives and folders.
I understand that I need to convert my FAT32 drives to NTFS to do so.
This would not be a problem for c:\, thus covering user profiles and
mail etc, but I dual boot with Linux, and keep my documents on a FAT32
partitioned logical drive shared between win2k pro and Linux. I
understand that Linux can't read NTFS partitions. Can anyone suggest
a work around?

It would be a complete pain, but at least temporarily one possibility
would be to copy files to and from the NTFS partition. Are there any
problems with doing this? One worry I do have is the change of
timestamp, as I use Folder Match to synchronise my files between home
and work, and whilst there is an option to ignore the FAT/NTFS 2s
difference and daylight saving time difference, I am concerned that
copying the file a number of times between 2 partitions might change
the time further than that, even if there aren't any other problems.

A last question. I have been nervous of using NTFS since I read that
you can't move NTFS drives to a different computer if there are any
problems. What determines this relationship, and is there any way
round it?

Thanks

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