Larry Marshall wrote: > > Praedor Tempus wrote: > > > > I have a drive/partition mapped to /mnt/DOS_hdb6, and it is vfat. > > It's purpose is to hold games (windoze games, some of which can > > be played with wine). > > > I log in as root or superuser and try to chmod portions of the > > chmod changes permissions for the files but these don't exist in vfat > so you get the error. Thank you. I hadn't realized it was all directly associated with the filesystem - that it was more of a "how linux handles this or that". > In your /etc/fstab file change the relevant line to be: > > /dev/hdb6 /mnt/DOS_hdb6 vfat user,exec,umask=0,0,0 > > That should solve your problem. Reboot? Can you not simply unmount the volume and then mount it again? I thought that when you remount in this way, the fstab is read again and that would be that. praedor
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