Subject: Re: Vfat disk
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 14:58:09 AKDT
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
You can set the permissions in 'fstab'. Check out 'umask' (man page) and
using gui/uid for permissions. The 'mount' man page also helps with the
syntax to us.
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