Re: [newbie] Can't change permissions of mounted partition.

2004-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson 
On Thursday 12 February 2004 22:43, Marc Resnick wrote:

 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.

Shot in the dark - is this an install that uses a previously set up 
/home?  Could it be that your uid is not the same as before?  It 
doesn't explain your fat32 problem, but it might explain the /home 
one.

Anne
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Re: [newbie] Can't change permissions of mounted partition.

2004-02-12 Thread Marc Resnick 
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 modeOptions

 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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