On 1/29/06, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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:
> > 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?
>
Sure. /sbin/fdisk # to change the partition table.
/sbin/mke2fs # to re"format".
carl
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