Some time in the recent past David Gerard scribbled:
>
> OK, got disk up. (Problem was I didn't know its make. ad3s1 eventually
> worked.)
>
> Now it seems I can't make it writable by anyone but root:
>
> diva# ls -l viv.html
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1987 Jul 4 05:21 viv.html
> diva# chmod g+w viv.html
> diva# ls -l viv.html
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1987 Jul 4 05:21 viv.html
> diva# chmod a+w viv.html
> diva# ls -l viv.html
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1987 Jul 4 05:21 viv.html
>
> Same for any files. Is this some sort of FAT32 limitation? Is this
> documented anywhere?
I know it's documented somewhere but I'm too lazy to look right now. I
know for a fact if you search the archives you'll find more detail.
The short answer is that FAT32 has no concept of permissions there's not
way to 'change them' on a per file/dir basis. When you mount a FAT{32}
partition it'll inherrit the permissions of the mount point. So
chown/chmod that directory and re-mount.
>
> - d.
>
--
Chris
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