This is normal... You can't set permissions on a fat32 disk... file system won't do that. So whomever or whatever mounts the partition, gets reported by Linux as the owner since it has to report something when you do an ls-l As far as Linux is concerned all files are readable and executable on a fat32 sysem. Since yours seems to get mounted during boot root is mounting it so Linux reports root as the owner.
James On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 19:09, bascule wrote: > i have a win partition mounted with the following fstab line: > /dev/hda6 /mnt/drivef vfat user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > as i understand it all files on this drive should appear to have the same > permissions, but i get the following, the partition is symlinked to be > accessed at /home/bascule/mp3s/: > [bascule@localhost downloads]$ ls -l /home/bascule/mp3s/Cher/Believe/ > total 19184 > -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3852414 Mar 21 2001 01_Believe.mp3* > -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3782529 Mar 21 2001 02_The Power.mp3* > -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4586352 Mar 21 2001 03_Runaway.mp3* > > all the preceding have the apparent permissions that i would expect from the > fstab line, but the following don't: > [bascule@localhost downloads]$ ls -l /home/bascule/mp3s/Chet\ Baker/My\ Funny\ > Valentine/ > total 42904 > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2248704 Jun 29 2000 01_My Funny > Valentine.mp3* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2926592 Jun 29 2000 02_Someone To Watch > Over Me.mp3* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 3319808 Jun 29 2000 03_Moonlight Becomes > You.mp3* > > surely this shouldn't be?, note i had this under 8.2 but due to an unfixable > (by me) problem with xmms i decided to upgrade to 9.0 earlier than intended > and after the upgrade turned out to be shaky i did a clean install just > keeping /home, is there any way that accessing the same partition from winxp > - which i have done - could have messed with it? > > any ideas? > > bascule > -- > 'Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people what > they need to get.' > (Hogfather) > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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