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?
how are you trying to copy the files? i've never gotten an error like that when using a normal 'cp file /win/file' type copy, but i have when using 'cp -a' or extracting a tar file to a windows partition. the problem is because fat32 doesn't have any sort of file permissions, and if the util you're using tries to set the permissions on the new files it creates, it fails. -- trey