Make other partition writable to all

gm_leon · 11-27-2002, 01:58 AM

Hi All,

Besides all the linux partitions, I got two more windows
partitions auto-mounted at boot time always.

I planned to create some dir for each user on the two vfat
partitions. It works fine (absolutely

) for root, but I just can't change the ownership of any folder to anyone rather than root.

"chown" gives me no error, but the ownership just remained
to root.

Anyone can help?

Regds,
GM

realos · 11-27-2002, 04:06 AM

hello gm_leon,

(i guess) that is problem with an old kernel which does not support vfat partitions perfectly. I guess you either need to compile a new kernel or if it is too difficult for beginning just install a new release of the Linux flair you use.

btw, you should edit your profile and write there what distribution you use. this way people can have more acurate guess of a possible solution.

acid_kewpie · 11-27-2002, 04:18 AM

you can't use chown on a vfat filesystem as fat32 does not have any concept of ownership at file level. the fact that it is "owned" by root is a blanket assumption made on mounting. you want to change the attributes set in your /etc/fstab and set umask=000 you can change the ownership if you really want to with uid= and gid= parameters, but this won't be necessary anymore.