Nick Rout wrote: > Robert Fisher wrote: >> On Friday 15 June 2007 5:50 pm, Reg wrote: >> >>> Nick Rout wrote: >>> >>>> Well it is clearly mounted read/write (rw) so it is more likely a >>>> permissions thing. Who owns the files? Try ls -l /music and see who >>>> owns the files. >>>> >>> if I enter that command I get: >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls -l /music >>> total 96 >>> dr-xr-xr-x 149 root root 32768 2007-06-14 17:27 My Music >>> >> >> If you are the only one using the computer then I would, as root, >> type.... >> >> chmod -R 777 /music/My Music/ >> >> (To be root, type "su -" then press enter then enter root password) >> > > I am not sure that this will work. The permissions will be determined > by the mount options on vfat. vfat inherently has no permissions, and > they are layered on top by the vfat driver to make it compatible with > unix concepts. > > Go to the page that robert referred you to earlier, it tells you how > to set the permissions when mounting a vfat partition. The secret is > to set uid and gid. uid is user id, you can see yours by using the id > command. like: > > $ id > uid=1000(nick) gid=100(users) > groups=4(adm),10(wheel),18(audio),19(cdrom),27(video),35(games),80(cdrw),85(usb),100(users),250(portage),444(vmware),445(qemu) > > > so if I want to mount a vfat partition to be owned by myself I would use > > mount -t vfat /mnt/hdb1 /music -o uid=1000 > > Then user with uid 1000 will own all the files under /music. Problem > solved. > > Look at this in conjunction with robert's page. > > (Actually these days -t vfat is generally redundant as the system will > automatically work out the filesystem). > Tried that and got the following result:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> id uid=1000(reg) gid=100(users) groups=16(dialout),33(video),100(users) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> mount -t vfat /mnt/hdb1 /music -o uid=1000 mount: only root can do that [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> su - Password: athlon:~ # mount -t vfat /mnt/hdb1 /music -o uid=1000 mount: special device /mnt/hdb1 does not exist athlon:~ # Maybe I did it wrong? I also tried the other commands the other guys gave with no result either, I have also browsed those web pages Robert gave and although I have a bit more of an understanding of some of it, a good deal of stuff around commands is over my head at this stage. In the mean time I have found that by logging in as super user via file manager I can rename my music files, which seems an easier solution for me at this point. I think understanding how all the commands work is going to take quite a while for me. regards reg
