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? -- Frits Wuthrich <frits@wuthrich.cc>
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
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
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 19:03, Alex Doll wrote:
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 That is exactly what I use as well, I use Konqueror file manager and drag/drop. -- Frits Wuthrich <frits@wuthrich.cc>
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]'.
Contrary to what some have suggested this is not a konqueror issue. To overcome this it is necessary to use the quiet option when mounting the drive. This is typically added to fstab as in this snippet from mine. /dev/hdd1 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437,quiet 0 0 Here is the description of the option from the mount man page. quiet Turn on the quiet flag. Attempts to chown or chmod files do not return errors, although they fail. Use with caution! -- Steve Crane http://craniac.afraid.org
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]'.
Contrary to what some have suggested this is not a konqueror issue. To overcome this it is necessary to use the quiet option when mounting the drive. This is typically added to fstab as in this snippet from mine.
/dev/hdd1 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437,quiet 0 0
Here is the description of the option from the mount man page.
quiet Turn on the quiet flag. Attempts to chown or chmod files do not return errors, although they fail. Use with caution!
-- Steve Crane http://craniac.afraid.org Steve, thanks for this, this resolved it for me, I added the ,quiet to both the FAT32 partions I have in fstab. I can now copy or move without
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 23:55, Steve Crane wrote: the error message. -- Frits Wuthrich <frits@wuthrich.cc>
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]'.
I think this is just linux's way of telling you it tried to set
Alex Doll wrote: permissions, but since windows doesn't do "permissions', they didn't get set or stay set. I see this same message every time i move a file to the windows side of my hard disk. It has never been a problem to use the file, even if I move it back to the linux side. Terry Bassett
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