-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ivan F. Martinez Sent: 20 December 2003 11:43 To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Root isn't God On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:19:53 +0100 Nicolò Nepote <nepote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: NN> I have mounted a fat32 partition 7dev/hda2 on /mnt/data with the NN> vfat option and added an entry in /etc/fstab with auto option. The NN> folder /mnt/data was created with default umask and has 755 NN> permissions. In order to have the possibility to write on that disk NN> when I login as "nepote" (that is my usual identity and is part of NN> the group "root") i logged in as root and: NN> NN> chmod 775 /mnt/data -R NN> NN> the command returns a list off "you don't have enough permissions NN> (requested 775, was 755)" NN> NN> ????????? You can't change permissions on vfat with chown and chmod. man mount and look the options to specify this parameters at mount time. try the umask = to 000. It worked for me (on rhel 3) But it should be the same on Fed. Regards Roger
