On 12:59 Thu 24 Feb , maxim wexler wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a fat32 partition on another drive /dev/hda5 > which is listed in /etc/fstab like this: > > /dev/hda5 /home/blissfix/fat vfat auto,user o o > > But as user I have no access, only as root. > > cat /proc/mounts reveals: > > /dev/hda5 /home/blissfix/fat vfat > rw,nodiratime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,fmask=0033,dmask=0033 > 0 0 > > not sure what this means but even as root chown gives: > > chown: Changing ownership of '/home/blissfix/fat/*': > operation not permitted.
FAT filesystems don't know about ownership or permission. What you want to do is chown /home/blissfix/fat, assuming user blissfix doesn't own it. What does ls -l /home/blissfix/fat tell you. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
