Access attributes & ownership on FAT filesystem

correro · 03-18-2003, 07:48 PM

Change of access attributes (with "chmod") and ownership (with "chown") is not permitted for files/folders on a FAT filesystem. Is this correct? If so, is there anyway to get around it?

wapcaplet · 03-18-2003, 07:55 PM

That's probably because FAT has no concept of ownership. It does support some access attributes, but with FAT everything is "owned" by one user (since Win95/98/etc. are all basically single-user OSes).

You can change the owner of the entire filesystem when you mount it, however, by either passing options to mount, or modifying /etc/fstab. Check out the mount manpage for more info. (in particular, the user, owner, and umask options come to mind as being potentially useful here)

Aussie · 03-18-2003, 08:04 PM

Add umask=000 to the options in /etc/fstab, this is how mine looks,

Code:

/dev/hda1    /mnt/win98    vfat    auto,users,rw,umask=000    0   0