On 1/29/06, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My stick drives really don't act much like Linux drives in some ways.
> I'm puzzled.
>
> Here are two aberrations (there may be more):
>
> 1. When I copy regular files to the drive, they always have executable
> attributes in the copy even when not in the original.
>
> 2. chown is not permitted, even to root:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cd /mnt/avb/
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] avb]$ ll
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x 2 lbarnes lbarnes 4096 Jan 29 13:49 gpg
> drwxr-xr-x 2 lbarnes lbarnes 4096 Apr 25 2005 misc
> drwxr-xr-x 4 lbarnes lbarnes 4096 Apr 10 2005 pix
> drwxr-xr-x 2 lbarnes lbarnes 4096 Apr 10 2005 putty
> drwxr-xr-x 3 lbarnes lbarnes 4096 Nov 6 08:16 tclconf
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] avb]$ su
> Password:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] avb]# chown 0:0 misc/
> chown: changing ownership of `misc/': Operation not permitted
>
> Any thoughts?
It's pretty likely that these drives are formatted with msdos (FAT16
or FAT32) file systems. If so, they don't have ownerships,
permissions, etc. because they aren't Unix file systems.
The only good thing about this is that they are also useable on
Windows OS, if you happen to have a computer like that.
carl
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