i got caught out recently by unexpected behaviour in this arena, apparently (i beleive this to be a recent thing but i can't confirm this) linux will respect the read-only aspect of a fat file attribute and make your files appear unwritable when mounted, however you should be able to 'change' the permissions, this change appears to survive reboots but i haven't gone into win to check what the file attribs now are, apparently system files in fat are also recognised in some fashion but i'm not sure how, if you mount a fat drive with the 'quiet' option you can avoid those dialogue boxes telling you that permissions couldn't be set when writing to the fat volume, perhaps you have that and it is preventing error messages when you try to alter permissions,? - this is a guess by the way! if you are trying to change permisions as a user try also as root
bascule On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 6:16 pm, Jordan Elver wrote: > Hi, > Just installed 9 and looks cool. But having some permissions problems. I > have a vfat partition that I am not allowed to write too. When trying to > chage the permissions to 777 it does not do it, but does not error either?! > > Is this behaviour expected? I don't know if I am having these troubles > because it is vfat? I never used to in 8.2. > > Thanks for any help, > Cheers, > Jord -- "Yes, it's the right planet, all right, " he said again. "Right planet, wrong universe. "
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