2009/4/27 Matthew Daubney <m...@daubers.co.uk> > On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 12:57 +0100, Stephen Garton wrote: > > Afternoon All, > > > > I have a spare drive in my machine, formatted as fat32. All of the > > folders in this drive (automounts to /media/storage) as listed as > > being owned by root. When I try to change this (I've tried sudo chown > > -R and sudo nautilus) I get permission denied errors. > > > > Any idea why this would be, and/or how I can change the permissions to > > my user? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Steve Garton > > sheepeatingtaz.co.uk > > You can use the uid and gid options with mount to make it mount fat32 > drives as if you own all the files. e.g. > > sudo mount /dev/sdX /media/MOUNTPOINT -o uid=1000,gid=1000 > > HTH > > -Matt Daubney > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >
Cheers Matt (and Chris), I'll edit fstab to add these options see if that helps. Steve Garton sheepeatingtaz.co.uk
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