Since FAT32 has no concept of users and only a rudimetary concept of file
meta-data (permission bits, etc) all files will be owned by the owner of
the directory on which it is mounted.  You can make the entire filesystem
contents own by one particular user and/or group. Read mount_msdos(8)

 HTH,

 - Mike Hogsett




> 
> OK, got disk up. (Problem was I didn't know its make. ad3s1 eventually
> worked.)
> 
> Now it seems I can't make it writable by anyone but root:
> 
> diva# ls -l viv.html
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1987 Jul  4 05:21 viv.html
> diva# chmod g+w viv.html
> diva# ls -l viv.html
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1987 Jul  4 05:21 viv.html
> diva# chmod a+w viv.html 
> diva# ls -l viv.html
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1987 Jul  4 05:21 viv.html
> 
> Same for any files. Is this some sort of FAT32 limitation? Is this
> documented anywhere?
> 
> 
> - d.
> 
> 
> 
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