Do you need to retain the vfat file system? I get around this problem by reformatting the usb stick with a Linux file system. I don't think the vfat file system allows you to change the permission attributes.
- Denis Wee On Monday 13 April 2009 8:50 am, Wilfred Walsh wrote: > I want my vfat usb stick to (auto)mount with username usergroup > ownership, so that rsync works as I want it to. At present, under > gnome on fedora 10, the ownership is username root and I cannot use > chown, even as root, to change it. > > Under "system-preferences-system-authorizations-hal" I changed all > fields to "yes" which I assume to be the most permissive, and then > restarted hal service, to no avail. > > Any ideas please? > > Thanks, > > Wilfred _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
