Fat, vfat and fat32 filesystems don't have any structure to record
permission, so the whole filesystem is mounted with some permission
specified to mount. By default it will be owned by the userid
that mounted it (root if it is automounted) and no one else
will be able to write it. You can change this by specifying mount
options in /etc/fstab. You will probably have to read man fstab and man
mount and man umask recursively to understand this.
To allow anyone to write it, specify umask=0 in the mount options field
of fstab, umount it, and mount it again. To specify an owner or group
id, use uid= or gid=. To allow the owning group and no other to write
it, umask=2.
Lawson
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On Thu, 20 May 1999, Vincent Caintic wrote:
> i'd like to give another account on my computer access to write folders
on my
> mounted win98 partition. that account only has read access to them by
default.
> however, even when i attempt to change the permissions using chmod
under root,
> the folder always has the permissions 0755.
>
> i'm still new to linux and haven't really messed with permissions
before, so
> this might seem dumb and the above might be irrevelant info. anyway,
how do i
> change this?
>
> thanks for any advice.
>
>
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