Say, I just noticed this as well, but it appears that JG is correct. On my windoze directory, I saw: [root@jack-in jdyer]# ls -l /mnt/win_c <snip> dr-xr-xr-x 20 root root 8192 May 26 17:23 Program Files/ <snip>
Now, I thought this was controlled by the "umask=0" parameter in my /etc/fstab, but I tried: [root@jack-in jdyer]# chmod +w /mnt/win_c/Program\ Files Lo and behold, now I get the following: [root@jack-in jdyer]# ls -l /mnt/win_c <snip> drwxrwxrwx 20 root root 8192 May 26 17:23 Program Files/ <snip> (Notice that everyone now has write permission to my "Program Files" directory.) So, I'm assuming that, somewhere along the way, the FAT file system driver has changed, such that it's permissions are somehow mapped to the unix standard. Further experimentation reveals that changing permissions is "kinda funky"... For example: [root@jack-in jdyer]# chmod g-w /mnt/win_c/Program\ Files [root@jack-in jdyer]# ls -ld /mnt/win_c/Program\ Files dr-xr-xr-x 20 root root 8192 May 26 17:23 /mnt/win_c/Program Files/ (Notice, no write for anyone, despite the fact that this was a change to group permission. I'm pretty sure that write access was allowed for everyone, prior to this command...) [root@jack-in jdyer]# chmod u+w /mnt/win_c/Program\ Files [root@jack-in jdyer]# ls -ld /mnt/win_c/Program\ Files drwxrwxrwx 20 root root 8192 May 26 17:23 /mnt/win_c/Program Files/ (Now, everyone has write permission, even tho this was specified as a change to the "u"ser (owner) permissions.) [root@jack-in jdyer]# chmod g-w /mnt/win_c/Program\ Files [root@jack-in jdyer]# ls -ld /mnt/win_c/Program\ Files drwxrwxrwx 20 root root 8192 May 26 17:23 /mnt/win_c/Program Files/ (Deny group write access? Apparently not...) I'll grant that it's pretty strange, but it probably has something to do with mapping unix permissions (three sets, owner/group/others) to M$ permissions (Bill sez, "one size fits all", and you'd better like it.) "Good luck with that", -Jason On Saturday 19 October 2002 12:52 am, bascule wrote: > so you're saying that linux is respecting the fat file system attributes? > in this case (for mp3 files) some of them have readonly when in win9xp and > thus linux is not giving them write access when it mounts the partition? > > i must say i've never heard of this behaviour, is it a new thing in linux > ot have i just been unobservant? :-) > > can it be turned off? > > bascule > > On Friday 18 Oct 2002 2:01 pm, J. Grant wrote: > > Really its because your fat32 files have some combo of > > readonly/hiden/system. You can change them in windows or linux using > > chmod. > > > > JG -- ========================= Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'. (The Last Continent)
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