Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3470 mails)

[Alex Doll <alex.doll@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > every time I copy or move a file from a reiserfs partition to a FAT32
> > partition, I get the error message 'could not change permissions for
> > [filename]'.
> > This is the line in fstab for this drive/partition:
> > /dev/hdb1            /windows/F           vfat
> > iocharset=iso8859-1,users,gid=users,umask=0002,code=437 0 0
> > Although I get the error message, the file gets copied anyway.
> > I use SUSE8.1 or WinXP on this box.
> > I am not sure what is going on, but I suspect the permission is set
> > incorrectly for this windows partition?

I get this all the time when I drag/drop with Konqueror.  I suppose one could 
dig into the Konqueror config and silence the message, but it is too close to 
my nap time. :-)

-AD