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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 system |
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> does not have a concept of owners and permissions so the kernel has to fudge |
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> it. You are finding that you cannot change these for the simple reason that |
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> they do not exist and the kernel is pretending they are owned by root 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 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 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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