On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 23:19:03 +0100, you wrote:
Am Mi, den 24.12.2003 schrieb Dennis Calhoun um 23:09:
Yup, it seems very odd to me and I've found no way around it, but when I try to use *any* means of changing the permissions on certain things, root is denied the ability to do so. I want to make a slave drive, that I've properly mounted, open for writing to it under my regular username instead of having to log out completely and log back in as root. So far I cannot find a way for root to be able to change this.
Any idea why this is and what I can do about it? If more info is needed, please be simple and clear about exactly what you want me to get from where and I will gladly supply it.
I bet the drive/partition you are speaking about has a fat32/ntfs filesystem on it. On such systems you can't chmod/chown.
Hi Alexander
Yes, it is fat32 (or vfat as linux wants it called). Thing is, as the owner, root, I can read, write and execute... as any other user I cannot write to it.
It really stinks to have to completely log out and then log in as root to be able to write to that drive. The same situation exits on another windows partition too. Is there ANY way to enable my regular user to write to these?
Use one of the fat mount options for mount.
man mount:
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Mount options for fat
(Note: fat is not a separate filesystem, but a common part of the
msdos, umsdos and vfat filesystems.)
blocksize=512 / blocksize=1024 / blocksize=2048
Set blocksize (default 512).uid=value and gid=value
Set the owner and group of all files. (Default: the uid and gid
of the current process.)
umask=value
Set the umask (the bitmask of the permissions that are not
present). The default is the umask of the current process. The
value is given in octal.
dmask=value
Set the umask applied to directories only. The default is the
umask of the current process. The value is given in octal.
Present since 2.5.43.
fmask=value
Set the umask applied to regular files only. The default is the
umask of the current process. The value is given in octal.
Present since 2.5.43.
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