On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Justin Georgeson wrote:
> > What's your "umask" set for? Those sort of file permissions aren't
> > understood by DOS. Do a chmod on a file on a DOS partition and you'll
> > get the same error.
>
> I set that because it seemed without it the permissions of the drive (when
> mounted) were 755, which would not allow anyone but root to write to the drive
> (not what I wanted). Actually I usually don't get an error when doing a chmod
> on a file on a vfat partition, it just doesn't work. Like I said, all the files
> I want to put on the drive are put on the drive, it just tells me the operation
> isn't permitted (then does it anyways).
Sorry if my previous e-mail wasn't that clear. I meant the umask
setting in your .chsrc or .bash_profile, etc. If you set a umask
variable there, every time you copy/move a file, it tries to change the
permission bits on the file.
If you try to move/copy a file on the FAT/VFAT partition, it tries to
change those permission bits which then fails with the error "operation
not permitted". Depending on what shell you're using, comment out the
"umask" settings and you won't get that error.
I had the same problem appear for me when I set up a umask variable in
my .tcshrc file.
marty
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