Subject: Re: Vfat disk
From: shortpier (shortpier@shortpier.is-a-geek.com)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 14:21:35 AKDT
chmod the mount point WHEN the disk is not mounted
give it read and write permissions. When you remount it should let all
users use it.
Shortpier
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 13:56, Peter Q. Olsson wrote:
> Hello all-
>
> I recently purchased a usb disk ~170 Meg, that I use as a quasi-portable storage
> unit. It came formatted as a vfat file system. I have thus far not reformatted
> it since vfat lets me work w/ both Linux and Windoz platforms.
>
> Problem is, I cannot change possession and/or file attributes (chown/chmod) on
> this file system. So... only root can write to it. Kind of cumbersome, to say
> the least. Is this just inherent for vfat FS's within the linux paridigm?
>
> PQO
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