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KePSuX
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 Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:53 pm Post subject: Permissions Question |
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Ever get stumped by something so basic it makes you feel reatarded? I have a harddrive mounted at /backups that I cannot chmod the permissions of (to 777) or chown away from root:root.
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elaine / # ls -lah | grep backups
drwxr--r-- 4 root root 32K Dec 31 1969 backups
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Fstab:
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/dev/hdb1 /backups vfat auto,user
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Very confused. What can I do?
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lookinin
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| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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vfat doesn't support those permissions or ownership other than root:root 
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actually, you might be able to change the ownership, but it would be for the entire filesystem ... check out man fstab... Anyone wanna confirm?
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KePSuX
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| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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Haha, doh. Ok, how can I give a normal user write access to the drive?
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lookinin
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| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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My fstab looks like this, and users can write to it:
| Code: | | /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat defaults,umask=0,noatime 0 0 |
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lookinin
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And you taught me something too... I've always found it very annoying when I do a (to use your example):
And I got a directory listing inside backups... "ls -l | grep dir/" works nice. I feel silly that I never thought of that... lol |
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KePSuX
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| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| lookinin wrote: | My fstab looks like this, and users can write to it:
| Code: | | /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat defaults,umask=0,noatime 0 0 |
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Hot dog. Thanks bro!
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