At Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:57:56 +1100, Michael Lake wrote: > still cant set permissions though as you can see here... > > casteret:/mnt# mountcasteret:/mnt# chmod ug+w dos/ > casteret:/mnt# ls -l > drwxr-xr-x 4 root users 16384 Jan 1 1970 dos > > I was expecting a w to show after I changed permissions. I am root after > all :-)
i think you're forgetting the small detail that fat has no concept of unix file permissions - there simply isn't any way of storing them. it doesn't matter how hard you try you will always get "operation not permitted" for exactly that reason. if you wanted to do unixy things (device files, symlinks, permissions, etc) you might try mounting as "umsdos". iiuc (and i've never used it) it stores such meta-things in a special file in each directory. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
