Hi everybody

I have this problem when i mount my external harddrive-a Western Digital, 320 gigabyte.
I have configured my fstab as follows:
/dev/sdb1 /media/My_Book vfat user,auto,uid=1001,umask=000 0 0

This configuration works fine, however i want to change the user permissions to 777 for one of the directories "X" on my WD. I am not able to change the user permissions with the chmod command and as far as i have understood it is actually impossible. So how do i manage to mount me device with uid=1001 and umask=022 but at the same time i want to be able to chang e the user settings for directorei "X" to 777...

Any ideas??

Hi,


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Regards

I do not think you can change permissions of files and directories on a vfat partition because the file system does not support *nix style permissions. You can probably look this up using google.

Indeed...to elaborate a little about that

Chmod won't tell that, you can run chmod -v 644 file over vfat and it'll say that successfully changed mode to (rw-r--r--), but, that change never happen actually. The effectives permitions are setted by the options during mount on the partition.



Regards

Ok..so if i get it rigth it is not possible for me to change the file permissions, since these are strictly determined by the umask command in my fstab file.

what would you recommend if you wanted the entire partition to be rwxr-xr-x except for a single directorie which should have the settings rwxrwxrwx?..should i switch file system or something like that?

By the way what is the difference between umask=000 and umask=0000?