On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 03:46:57AM +0000, Justin Georgeson wrote:
| I have a 1 GB partition which is mounted at boot and used for file
| sharing between OSs. Here is the line /etc/fstab:
|
| /dev/hdb1 /mnt/filez vfat
| rw,exec,dev,suid,umask=000,gid=100 1 1
|
| Anyhow it mounts alright, and I can access it normally, but if I say to
| cp or mv anything to it, I'm told "the operation is not permitted." But,
| the files are put on the drive regardless!? I can delete files
| regardless of who I'm logged in as (given the umask) without an error,
| why does it gripe when I try to put files on it? Thanks.
Your mv/cp commands are probably copying/moving the file as requested,
then changing the permissions on the destination files. Since the
filesystem doesn't support the changed permissions, you see the error.
To make it stop, do a `man mount', look for the `fat' section,
specifically at the `quiet' flag -
quiet Turn on the quiet flag. Attempts to chown or chmod
files do not return errors, although they fail. Use
with caution!
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Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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