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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 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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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 |
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knowledge 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 |
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and see how well this works for you. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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