Re: tlug: vfat under Linux

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 20 May 1998, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:

> Currently, the owner for everything on my W95 VFAT volume, when mounter
> under Linux, is root. However, I'd like to be able to change this.
> Attempting to do a chown results in the message "operation not permitted."
> Are vfat volumes mounted read-only or something, even though the file
> permissions do show as rwx for owner?

vfat doesn't handle permissions at the filesystem level, so Linux has to
make something up.  You can't change them because there's nothing to
change... it's read/write though, except for that :)

> 
> TIA,
> 
> Jonathan Byrne
> Media and Content Section
> 3Web - Your Internet Solution! <URL:http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/>
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