On Saturday 26 Oct 2002 8:08 pm, you wrote: > On Saturday 26 Oct 2002 1:08 pm, Jordan Elver wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a partition on my drive which is purely for all my mp3s, downloads > > etc. The partition is FAT32 so that I can access it from Windoze too. The > > drive is automatically mounted on boot as root with full permisions on > > everything. I assume full permisions as it is FAT32 not ext2 etc? > > > > Although I can copy stuff to the partition as any user, it complains > > about not being able to change the permissions of the file I am copying. > > Is there anyway that I can mount the partition as the user I normally > > use? Is that a good idea? > > > > Thanks for any help, > > Jord > > In your /etc/fstab entry for the FAT32 partition add the option > quiet . You will then not get that annoying message. > > derek
It's normal, because windows doesn't use permissions. Derek's suggestion will take away the agro, but you can just ignore it if you prefer Anne
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