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
What options did you use to mount this partition? (Hint: read the vfat options for the mount manpage and try the umask=0 option) > 1) manipulating the permissions does not work (either using setfacl or > chmod) Of course they won't work. This is VFAT you're talking about. > 2) touching the timestamps work... until the next mount, wherein it's > rest back to the start of the epoch. Now this is weird... > 3) no immutable flags have been set; the directory where the VFAT > filesystem mounted on is on XFS. I've dropped using XFS completely because I keep running into data corruption with my -ck patches. I recently reinstalled on Buwaya, my home computer. It uses ext3 and VFAT, with whatever software was in Sid this week. I didn't notice any timestamp problems, but maybe I wasn't looking hard enough. > 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? I hope to remember to look at how things are on my computer at home, and will get back to you about how things are there. I also run Sid, although not "unwittingly". ;) --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : http://jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. : software we refer to GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE : freedom, not price. _ 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]
