On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 02:08:24PM -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > 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. >
I thought that might be the problem. Can they be reformatted? -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
