On Thursday 12 February 2004 05:20 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Thursday 12 Feb 2004 9:57 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > > I need to be able to use an extra FAT32 partition as a regular user. In > > root, when I chmod it to 777, nothing happens. When I try to use Nautilus > > to set the permissions, I try to check off write as other(everything is > > checked but it) and it just flashes and unchecks. I also can't change the > > owner or the group. What did I do wrong now? > > The reason you cannot set permissions is because FAT file systems do not > have any permission bits. > > You have to set permissions for the entire file system in the /etc/fstab > line entry for that file system. If you add the option umask-0 then the > perms will be 777 > > If you prefer to use a GUI run diskdrake and select Advanced mode>Options > > If you also add the option 'quiet', then you will stop getting error > messages when you try to set permission on FAT32 files > > See 'man mount' for a full description of the available options. > > derek
Derek, umask=0 is set in the options, but I still don't have access. What's weird is I also don't have write access in my /home(I can write in /home/marc though) or a bunch of other directories either.
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