changing permissions for mounted drives

Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
Sun Oct 24 21:08:36 UTC 2010


dasararaju sumatheja wrote:
> Hi,
>     I'm using vfat.

So you will never be able to change user or permission for files;
the filesystem just doesn't store them.

What you need is mount options.

man mount

Look at "Mount options for fat", you will find that
  uid, gid, umask, dmask, fmask
can help you.

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   Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it


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