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On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> ubiquitous1980 wrote: |
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>> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> On Monday 08 March 2010 08:31:40 ubiquitous1980 wrote: |
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>>>> I have a usb flash drive which will not allow me to edit its files. I |
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>>>> have tried chmod a+rwx -R $files but this does still not permit |
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>>>> editing. Further, the files within the directories refuse to have |
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>>>> ownership changed via chown $myusername -R /mnt/disk. Output is: |
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>>>> operation not permitted. Any ideas? Thanks. |
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>>> This happens when the flash drive is type vfat. This excuse for a file |
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>>> system |
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>>> does not have a concept of owners and permissions so the kernel has to |
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>>> fudge |
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>>> it. You are finding that you cannot change these for the simple reason |
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>>> that |
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>>> they do not exist and the kernel is pretending they are owned by root |
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>>> with |
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>>> MODE 755 or some such. |
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>>> If hal is mounting the device, check your hal config, looking for some |
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>>> likely |
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>>> named option. |
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>> What config file would this be? Can I find it in the handbook? |
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>>> If the device is mounted via /etc/fstab, adjust the |
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>>> uid/gid/umask/dmask/fmask |
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>>> options to mount in column 4. Full details in the man page, under section |
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>>> "fat" |
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>> I need to interact with university computers from time to time, any |
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>> other file system with proper permissions, to be used under both linux |
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>> and windows (without additional drivers)? |
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> I don't use these so I am by no means saying they work well. |
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> sys-fs/ntfs3g |
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> sys-fs/ntfsprogs |
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> I have read that the first one works pretty well but no first hand knowledge |
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> if it is true or not. You may want to read this as well. |
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> http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php |
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> You may just want to test this with something not so important for a bit and |
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> see how well this works for you. |
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You could also use ext2 and install the driver on Windows: |
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http://www.fs-driver.org/ |
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