-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-01-12 at 10:52 -0600, Chuck wrote:
I have a 300g drive with a vfat filesystem (created with mkfs.vfat) that I write files (well I want to write files to) to from both opensuse 10.3 and windows vista. (dual boot config, this filesystem is never mounted to both at once)
However, when booted into opensuse only root can write to the filesystem and chmod has no effect. (For example chmod 777 /mnt/data01/Documents (the mount point) appears to run successfully because $? = 0, however the permissions are not changed)
Yes, that's intentional. The only method to change the permissions is to change them at mount time, or editing the fstab file. By default files belong to the user that mounted it. For instance: /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat noauto,users,gid=users,fmask=0117,dmask=0007,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=437 0 0 You can find more options in the mount manual. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHiQdatTMYHG2NR9URAqJfAJ429ujiDvzXxcLuxuPKmZQkDdXqQQCfdvYU Oe58StFEFj3cHvCproRkpE4= =+fzt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org