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

[Mike De La Mater]

Thanks, I suspected that, but wasn't sure.

Mike

On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 17:26, Steve Bonds wrote:
> 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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