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01-17-2004, 10:53 AM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: AT
Distribution: Fedora Core 3
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can i chmod/chown vfat partition
can i chmod/chown vfat partition mounted into redhat9?
will this destroy the fat32 partition and make my win xp dont identify the data on that partition correctly?
is doing chmod/chown adding data a file or folder?
is chmod/chown is limited to ext2 and ext3 partition?
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01-17-2004, 11:06 AM
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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Scotland
Distribution: Slackware, RedHat, Debian
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You will not be able to change ownerships of files on a fat32 partition as it is not supported. Only *nix filesystems have this capability.
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01-17-2004, 11:43 AM
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and if i do chmod and chown on fat drive?
will it damage that partition?
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01-17-2004, 11:48 AM
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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Scotland
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IIRC it says "Opperation not permitted" and exits so it shouldn't damage anything.
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01-17-2004, 07:52 PM
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Location: Brighton, Michigan, USA
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It won't do anything. There's simply no place to put it, so it's discarded. For fat/vfat partitions, your permissions are set by how you mount the drive, so if you want to keep Linux users from modifying the fat drive, you have to set those permissions when you mount. From a windows point of view, there's nothing available to set, so it's open season on any box, provided you have permission to write to the directory.
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01-17-2004, 08:24 PM
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Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Plymouth, England.
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If you want to change the owner of the files on a VFAT partition, you will need to edit your /etc/fstab entry for it and add uid=XXX and gid=XXX and put the User ID number and Group ID numbers respectively.
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01-17-2004, 11:07 PM
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Registered: Aug 2003
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umask= 0 0 0 is what set in /etc/fstab under my fat32 partition?
how do i set letsay my g:\ that is hda8
in my fstab i used this line here:-
/dev/hda8 /g vfat auto,umask=0 0 0
is this the correct line to set so that all users can read/write and execute that partition?
if so why i still cant delete some of the files in my g:\ under redhat9?
most of the time i wanted to decompresss, tar.gz files using ark (a file compressor gui interface) it reported permission not allowed?
i use kde 3.1 and wanted to extract a tar.gz in my mounted vfat partition by using right click the selected compressed files and select extract to and i reported i cant do so because of no permission.
how to i set into fstab so that each and every users will get full access to my fat32 partition (read,write and execute)?
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