On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:29:59PM +0800, Sherwin Daganato wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:40:59PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > > 1) manipulating the permissions does not work (either using > > setfacl or chmod) > > I thought this is normal. that is, you can set/change permissions > because VFAT filesystem has no permission like *nix filesystem. > > Ano ba talaga?
Normally you can set the permissions (but not ownership) of the directory where the filesystem is mounted. Example: you can mount a filesystem to be readable, writable and executable by root alone. On the other hand, I mounted the VFAT filesystem with the default permissions (perms 755). This however, doesn't hold with the files inside the mounted partition (as they remain with perms 755 whatever you do, as VFAT natively doesn't even have the concept of permissions). What happened here is that the filesystem was formerly mounted with perms 755. When I upgraded the mount program (from the util-linux source package), it suddenly locked its perms to 744, and threw back the timestamp back to 1 Jan 1970. Anyway, I managed to go around this by downgrading mount to 2.11n. Apparently, this problem started manifesting in 2.11x of util-linux, and still persists with 2.11y. -- 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]
