Subject: Re: Vfat disk
From: Peter Q. Olsson (olsson@koyukuk.at.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 08:41:48 AKDT
No go on that one. The mount point is wide open and is even owned by a
non-priviliged user. (for testing purposes only). But... mount to this
mount point and it is owned by root, with no write permission for group or world
Something else is going on here...
PQO
>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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| University of Alaska Anchorage |
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