'chmod' does not work on FAT32 drive under Cygwin 1.5.19
81 tmp ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 jhedden Domain Users 0 Feb 3 10:27 dummy.txt
82 tmp chmod 666 dummy.txt
83 tmp ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 jhedden Domain Users 0 Feb 3 10:27 dummy.txt
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On Feb 3 08:42, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
'chmod' does not work on FAT32 drive under Cygwin 1.5.19
That's not a bug, it's a feature of FAT32. FAT and FAT32 have no way
to keep security information. Convert your filesystem to NTFS if you
want that.
And, just in case somebody mentiones the 'ntea'
'chmod' does not work on FAT32 drive under Cygwin 1.5.19
Welcome to the wonderful world of FAT32. (NTFS is MUCH nicer).
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.chmod
There are inherently NO permissions on FAT32, with no way
to add it, so cygwin fakes success on chmod without doing
On 03 February 2006 15:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Feb 3 08:42, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
'chmod' does not work on FAT32 drive under Cygwin 1.5.19
That's not a bug, it's a feature of FAT32. FAT and FAT32 have no way
to keep security information. Convert your filesystem to NTFS if you
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