Cannot chown or change permissions

Fear · 10-25-2005, 01:44 PM

I have a mounted 160gb hard drive on my system, im trying to change permissions on the mounted folder and it wont let me, i cant change owners on any of the subfolders or files either. its set to automount and the filesystem is fat32, anyone know how to fix this? Im also logged in as root when doing this.

Fear · 10-25-2005, 02:01 PM

ok, i got the permissions set so that i can write etc, but i want to chown to a different user a folder or two, how can i do that?

kurtdriver · 10-26-2005, 05:42 PM

Have you used the chown command? chown newowner file
The manual could be useful too, man chown
Happy computing, Kurt

init100 · 10-26-2005, 07:07 PM

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I have a mounted 160gb hard drive on my system, im trying to change permissions on the mounted folder and it wont let me, i cant change owners on any of the subfolders or files either. its set to automount and the filesystem is fat32, anyone know how to fix this? Im also logged in as root when doing this.

FAT32 does not support users and file permissions, thus the question of changing them is moot (you cannot change them). The file system would have no way to remember your changes.

You can change the owner and group of all files in the file system by using the mount options uid=[value] and gid=[value]. These settings are not saved to the file system, but associated with the mount point.