On 08/03/10 16:46, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 08 March 2010 08:31:40 ubiquitous1980 wrote: >> I have a usb flash drive which will not allow me to edit its files. I >> have tried chmod a+rwx -R $files but this does still not permit >> editing. Further, the files within the directories refuse to have >> ownership changed via chown $myusername -R /mnt/disk. Output is: >> operation not permitted. Any ideas? Thanks. > > This happens when the flash drive is type vfat. This excuse for a file system > does not have a concept of owners and permissions so the kernel has to fudge > it. You are finding that you cannot change these for the simple reason that > they do not exist and the kernel is pretending they are owned by root with > MODE 755 or some such. > > If hal is mounting the device, check your hal config, looking for some likely > named option. > > If the device is mounted via /etc/fstab, adjust the uid/gid/umask/dmask/fmask > options to mount in column 4. Full details in the man page, under section > "fat" >
I use both a USB memory stick with VFAT, and a USB hard drive with NTFS. Both work fine, but I *am* mounting both as my user account using /etc/fstab. Entries are as follows: LABEL="USBSTICK" /media/usbstick auto user,noauto 0 0 LABEL="USBstorage" /media/usbstorage ntfs-3g user,noauto 0 0 Then I just type "mount /media/usbstick" and use it as normal. John Moe
