Re: X Terminal- Maemo Nokia N900
 

Thanks. And... Is there any advantage of using FAT then? Or to ask that way, why can be no permission allowed desirable??

Re: X Terminal- Maemo Nokia N900
 

The advatange of MyDocs being FAT, is that you can plug your n900 into your computer via USB and read the partition on Windows.

Re: X Terminal- Maemo Nokia N900
 

..so in short one can say the usage of FAT is for compatibility and historic reasons, not because it's a good choice. There are other portable & matured filesystems which are robust but a) could not be extorted by patents and b) have to be included in vanilla Windows. (btw: can we say "Window", now that Win 8 jumped on the full-screen apps train too? Or "Fensterl 8" in .AT)

Re: X Terminal- Maemo Nokia N900
 

yeah but what about NTFS. it's also readable by windows and it's newer. why not this format for example???

P.S.: sorry to be annoying for someone maybe, but i just want to have it clear in my mind :)

Re: X Terminal- Maemo Nokia N900
 

Google is your friend, if you're looking for knowledge...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

Re: X Terminal- Maemo Nokia N900
 

Probably for many reasons, but I imagine mainly for compatibility reasons first off. If you have ever noticed that almost all USB memory sticks are formated in either FAT or FAT32, depending on their size.

Re: X Terminal- Maemo Nokia N900
 

NTFS is R/W under Windows (but not 95 or 98). Plus there are different "revisions" (or versions) of NTFS, so some NTFS features used by Windows Vista (or 7) will not be usable under Windows XP or 2000 or NT, etc.

Plus, Linux generally only supports reading from NTFS, but not writing. Yes, there are drivers allowing writing, but it's not 100% reliable (I guess they emulate Windows just a bit too much :).

Plus, you want a USB stick (and MyDocs is just that) to work with all sorts of exotic devices, such as a TV, or an Android phone, or whatever, which probably only supports FAT32.

Plus, MyDocs/USB-stick are supposed to be used for exchanging data. Meaning you don't want any sort of file/directory permissions to ruin that "experience". This is, IMHO, the single most reasonable reason why VFAT/FAT32 is still so widespread.

Re: X Terminal- Maemo Nokia N900
 

Thanks!! Very useful and fulfilling on my question :) thanks once more

Re: X Terminal- Maemo Nokia N900
 

One correction. Files from FAT-filesystem can be executed (in general). If you check /etc/fstab on N900, you can see a row:I bolded one parameter to focus.

Re: X Terminal- Maemo Nokia N900
 

Also getting rid of the "noexec," you should change the fmask to 0000 so all files with have the +x bit set.

Just don't accidentally run a text file as they too will be +x.