Emerging programs that create symlinks/chown files on FAT32

[Angel666]

So here is my problem: i dual boot my machine with windows. In order to have my webserver running locally able to serve pages both in windows and in gentoo, i put my htdocs dir in the windows FAT32 partition, mounted at /mnt/windows. A symlink, from /var/www/localhost/htdocs/ to /mnt/windows/htdocs/ servers to install all programs there.

But recently. when i wanted to install phpBB and piwi, both installations failed because they try to chown a file in the htdocs dir, which is not allowed since it is a FAT32 dir. Here is the error:

[moocha]

If you don't need write access from Windows 2000/XP to the ext2/ext3 partitions you can use the ext2/3 installable file system driver from http://ext2.yeah.net to give you read-only access to the ext2/3 partition on which htdocs resides.
I strongly advise you against enabling write access via this driver to your ext2 file systems. Trust me on this . If you're using ext3 file systems it's read only anyway since writing to ext3 isn't supported.
Under Windows 2000 you can use the Disk Manager MMC snap-in to (un)mount the partitions as drives or under a NTFS folder (the last method is preferable since you can place appropiate permissions on that folder before you mount the file systems). Under XP it doesn't seem to work via Disk Management and you have to use the mount utility that comes with the driver (or comes separately from the same site, I can't remember) to assign drive letters to the ext2/3 file systems - no access control on them, sadly.
Be warned though that using this driver creates a gaping security hole, especially if you mount the root file system (read access to /etc/shadow for anyone, for example ).
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