From: ik (kanerido_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Mon 16 Aug 2004 - 02:16:07 IDT
Amir Tal wrote:
> debian sid, 2.6.7-1-k7 .
> got an external 250gb hard drive with fat32 filesystem (created in Linux
> with fdisk), connected via usb2.
> the mount command is :
> mount -t vfat -o rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=437 /dev/xxx /mnt/xxx
>
> root can cd into the directory, create files, delete files, modify what
> he created., and chmod existing files.
> on the other hand, he cannot chown existing files, but he can modify
> them (edit and save).
> the files were copied to the disk using my computer at work, running
> windows 2000 server. files mode
> is set to "-rwxr--r--" .
>
> what am i missing here ??
>
FAT no matter what version does not support owners :) only attributes like R, W, Hidden and Directory :)
Ido
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