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Re: Simple Question ...
From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:48:59 +0100
On 2004-01-01 Adam Hawliczek wrote:
Can I encrypt a FAT32 partiton running over XP ?
Not by using EFS, if that's your question. Maybe by using third-party tools like BestCrypt [1] or PGPdisk [2].
I know that i can do this when i'm using NTFS but i prefered FAT and now i think i could have a problem ..
Trust me, you do not prefer FAT. Having a filesystem that is writable from Linux as well as from Windows is the only reason for using FAT I can think of, but if one needs to do that, I usually recommend a separate FAT32 partition for data exchange. Other reasons simply do not exist since FAT doesn't have a single one of the goodies NTFS provides (compression, encryption, ACLs, less fragmentation, journalling, streams, less limitations on file and partition sizes, a.s.o.). [1] http://www.jetico.com/ [2] http://www.pgpi.org/products/pgpdisk/ Regards Ansgar Wiechers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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