[PLUG] mount fat32 so I can change user and perms

Steve Bonds 1s7k8uhcd001 at sneakemail.com
Fri Jul 18 17:27:02 UTC 2003


On 18 Jul 2003, Mike De La Mater mikedela-at-ipns.com |PDX Linux| wrote:

> I'm trying to mount an existing fat32 drive so that everybody on the
> system can read and write to it. (MP3s mostly, nobody have a cow)
> 
> I'm mounting it 
> # mount -t vfat -rw /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb
> 
> It mounts fine, but I cannot change user, group or permissions on it. Is
> this because it's fat32?

FAT32 has no concept of users or permissions, so all the files on the
filesysem will have these determined at mount time, and any attempt to
change them will fail.

Hopefully the software trying to do the change will react in a sane
manner.

  -- Steve






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