James Wilkinson wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Michael Lake generated:
> >If I "chown root:dosusers dos" or "chgrp dosusers dos" I
> >get:
> >chgrp: dos/: Operation not permitted
>
> Anyway, because you can't store ownerships in the filesystem, chown and
> friends die.
> What you want here is a gid=502 or something, check the manpage to
> mount, look under the vfat/msdos fs options. This will mount the fs
> under that user, and everything under it will be owned by that user.
> This way the ownerships are done at the VFS for the whole fs, and not
> inside the fs as chown was trying to do.
Thanks greatly for this. Although the gid=502 solved the
problem I still had no idea why just changing the
permissions didn't work lie it does on a normal ext2
partition. Now I understand WHY.
Thanks.
Mike
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