From: Amir Tal (tal_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Mon 16 Aug 2004 - 05:45:50 IDT
Haggai Eran wrote:
>Since fat doesn't support ownership the only thing you can do is change the
>uid or gid in the mount command
>from man mount:
>Mount options for vfat
>..
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>On Monday 16 August 2004 02:02, 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 ??
>>
>>
>
>
>
solved :
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/14/2002/08/2/27353
scroll almost to the end to see the solution. if you're to lazy :
/dev/xxx /mnt/xxx vfat defaults,umask=000 1 0
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