Re: permissions and vfat

[gregory mott <gmott ultra net>]

check mount(8), i believe you will find a way to specify what user owns
all the vfat partition files at mount time.  the ownership and permissions
you expect are not available inside vfat..

"Caleb Chaplin" <caleb videotron ca> wrote:
> 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