Re: permission on dos filesystem
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using my dos partition as a store for data files I don't use > very often. Creating the files as a normal user, these files and the > directories belonged to my username. Today I just found out that the > ownerships had changed to root. I tried changing them back as root > using chown and chgrp only to find out i could not do that. > It kept saying Permission denied. When i tried changing the group from > root to adm it said that I as root was not member of the group. > What is going on ??? > Any help would be appreciated. > The MSDOS file system has no "place" to put the owner/group identification information. As a result, all files are owned/grouped by root/root. Hope this helps, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: permission on dos filesystem
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: : I have been using my dos partition as a store for data files I don't use : very often. Creating the files as a normal user, these files and the : directories belonged to my username. Today I just found out that the : ownerships had changed to root. I tried changing them back as root : using chown and chgrp only to find out i could not do that. : It kept saying Permission denied. When i tried changing the group from : root to adm it said that I as root was not member of the group. : What is going on ??? : Any help would be appreciated. The FAT filesystem doesn't offer support for things like owner and groupnames. Thus, after every remount, these information has been reset. The only way to make the files NOT owned by root is by giving the correct options to mount/fstab. The manual page will help you (umask, uid, gid). bye, Remco -- // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://oloon.student.utwente.nl // " Never make any mistaeks. " -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
permission on dos filesystem
Hi, I have been using my dos partition as a store for data files I don't use very often. Creating the files as a normal user, these files and the directories belonged to my username. Today I just found out that the ownerships had changed to root. I tried changing them back as root using chown and chgrp only to find out i could not do that. It kept saying Permission denied. When i tried changing the group from root to adm it said that I as root was not member of the group. What is going on ??? Any help would be appreciated. TIA George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
