On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:40:59PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > I just got a weird minor irritation recently concerning the VFAT > filesystem I have mounted in my system. Here's the short summary of it: > > % ls -l > drwxr--r-- 23 root root 8192 1970-01-01 08:00 windows > > 1) manipulating the permissions does not work (either using > setfacl or chmod) > 2) touching the timestamps work... until the next mount, wherein it's > rest back to the start of the epoch. > 3) no immutable flags have been set; the directory where the VFAT > filesystem mounted on is on XFS. > > util-linux version: 2.11y (Debian Sid) > > What could have possibly happened (or what I've unwittingly done -- > aside from using Debian Unstable :-) for this to happen?
Hmm... just read the developer info on this package -- seems that i'm not alone (bug #171309 mount: vfat partitions mounted with incorrect perms) Oh well.. time to downgrade util-linux... -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
