Pixel wrote: > Brent Hasty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>This is observed with MDK 9.0 B2 >>I have a USB External Hard Drive Enclosure with 80 Gig IBM Drive. When I try >>to use diskdrake to set up my partitions on this removable archive volume, it >>all looks good untill I reboot then the partitions are broke, and diskdrake >>shows they have never been formatted. I had formated and moved data on and >>back off before the reboot. >>This seems to be a repeatable error >>I have one partition of 70 GB using a fat32 filesystem. >>It will also not let me chown, or chmod the directory so that any user on the >>system can add folders and files to the partition.
This is natural for fat32. You have to use umask otions to set the permissions globally. fat32 wasn't designed for permissions, so that's the best you can do. $ man mount to see more -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
