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Paul Hartman wrote: |
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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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The computers belong to a university so he may not be able to install |
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any drivers. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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