RE: permissions and vfat

[Chad and Doria Skinner <cws-dls swbell net>]

I don't believe what you are trying to do is possible as you are correct
that vfat does not support file permissions in the same manner as native
linux partitions. IIRC the files on a vfat filesystem are owned by the user
who mounted the filesystem.

Chad

> Hi everyone,
>
> Please excuse me if this has been asked plenty times before, but
> I'm having
> trouble establishing read/write/exec permissions of a directory on a vfat
> partition and nothing I try seems to work.  Namely, variations on
> chown and
> chmod never seem to work on any folders there and root remains
> the only user
> who can actually copy files there.  I'm trying to give a roomate her own
> directory on a vfat storage partition with total control over
> it's contents,
> be it copying/modifying files there or adding new directories.
> Some google
> searching yielded a hint that vfat was never designed with group
> permissions
> in mind and therefore doesn't respond to them, but I can't help
> but feel I'm
> missing something totally obvious here.
>
> If someone could spell out the obvious for me I'd be grateful, thanks.
>
> Caleb
>
>
>
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