Re: Cannot change permissions on a mountable drive

[Hong F Du]

I got the following error messages when I used gnome-liunxconf and click on a source drive of Access local drive under File system. In addition, I can only see only one device drive on the Partition scroll down window under the Volume specification even though there are actually over six partitions shown under Local volume. Error message from remadmin: Error message from remadmin:Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkcombo.c: line 817 (gtk_combo_set_popdown_strings): assertion 'strings !=NULL' failed. Error message from remadmin: Error message from remadmin:Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 1584 (gtk_widget_map): assertion `GTK_WIDGET_VISIBLE (widget) == TRUE' failed What does it mean? Would this cause all my problems? feng Tim Walberg wrote: > You can accomplish this using the uid, gid, and umask options > of mount. See the mount manpage (under the options for fat > section) for more details. > > tw > > On 07/19/2000 15:43 -0400, Hong F Du wrote: > >> The /mnt/dosE is a fat16 file system which is on a ide hard drive from my > >> dual-boot NT/Linux system. It is setup as msdos type with auto translation >mode > >> when mounted. As a root, I can rwx the mounted /mnt/dosE. Now I want it to >be read > >> and writable for USERS group too, that makes problem appear. > >> > >> feng > >> > >> Tim Walberg wrote: > >> > >> > On 07/19/2000 14:28 -0400, Hong F Du wrote: > >> > >> Hi All, > >> > >> > >> > >> I have a dos formatted drive /mnt/dosE, its permission is 761. >When it > >> > >> is not mount yet, I can change its mode to 771. When I mount it, >its > >> > >> permission is automatically changed back to 761. Once the drive is > >> > >> mounted, I cannot change its permission no matter what I try. > >> > >> > >> > > >> > When the drive is not mounted, the chmod affects only the directory > >> > on which the drive will be mounted. Once the drive is mounted, the > >> > root inode of that filesystem overlays the directory (so you can't > >> > get to the directory any more until the drive is unmounted), so chmod > >> > would then affect that inode, and not the directory. Why you can't > >> > change the mode on the filesystem's root inode, though I can't > >> > say - are you mounting it read-only? Is it NTFS, which (usually) > >> > can't be mounted read-write? A cdrom? A FAT filesystem which doesn't > >> > relate directly to the Unix permission triad? Need more information > >> > to analyze any further... > >> > > >> > tw > >> > > >> > >> What is going on here? How should I make the permission change? > >> > >> > >> > >> Thank you in advanced > >> > >> > >> > >> feng > >> > End of included message > >> > > >> > -- > >> > +--------------------------+------------------------------+ > >> > | Tim Walberg | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > >> > | 828 Marshall Ct. | www.concentric.net/~twalberg | > >> > | Palatine, IL 60074 | | > >> > +--------------------------+------------------------------+ > >> > > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature > End of included message > > -- > +--------------------------+------------------------------+ > | Tim Walberg | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | 828 Marshall Ct. | www.concentric.net/~twalberg | > | Palatine, IL 60074 | | > +--------------------------+------------------------------+ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature