In the last episode (Oct 26), David Gerard said:
> 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?
FAT32 has no concept of file ownerships or permissions. All files by
default inherit the attributes of the directory the filesystem was
mounted on. You can override this by mounting with -u, -g and -m
options. See the mount_msdos manpage for more info.
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