Re: chmod on vfat

[Lee <lee unassemble co uk>]

Doug wrote:

> Hi all,
>  
> i'm new to Linux. and have a question that is bugging me.
>  
> i have 3 partitions that are formatted fat32 (w2k), I have fstab set 
> to auto mount with defaults. the permissions by default are 755, when 
> i try to chmod to 775 or 777 it doesn't change, it stays at 755. How 
> can i change them so that when i'm logged in as a user i can write to 
> these drives? or am I stuck with with just using root to write to 
> these drives?
>  
> Doug

I could be wrong but fat32 partitions (or any fat-type partition for 
that matter) does not support permissions.

The problem is more than likely due to the the permissions on the mount 
point itself.

If your machine is not running in a high-security setup try just 
settings the permissions of the mount point itself to 777 (e.g. chmod 
777 /mnt/win32) and see if you can then write to the partition.

If this fixes the problem try editing the fstab line to read something 
like "/dev/hda3     /mnt/win32    vfat   rw " or may be adjust the end 
to be "defaults,rw" not sure on that one.

Regards

Lee