hi
'man mount', regarding FAT mounts , explains the 'quiet' flag as follows:
quiet Turn on the quiet flag. Attempts to chown or chmod files do not
return errors, although they fail. Use with caution!
I gave it a try: it seems that 'chown' works as documented:
when 'quiet' is not set, indeed
# chown D /media/usbdisk/promemoria.pdf ; echo $?
chown: changing ownership of `/media/usbdisk/promemoria.pdf': Operation not
permitted
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But 'chmod' does never return an error on VFAT filesystem,
(in all the way that I tried it);
so maybe a small change in documentation may be useful; something as
quiet Turn on the quiet flag. Attempts to chown files do not
return errors, although they fail. Use with caution!
Beware that, in general, 'chmod' will not return errors on VFAT,
but will mostly fail to do what you expect it to do, due to
limitations
in the filesystem.
a.
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