shaul: > Can you tell what cp complains about ? It can't chmod (I think) on the vfat partition. (vfat partitions don't have permissions.)
You can avoid the error message for msdos and vfat partitions by mounting them with the `quiet' option. I haven't found a way to avoid the error message with samba disks. > Now trying to copy test.txt to the vfat partition: > > [01:55:13 shaul]$ cp -v test.txt /MS/ > test.txt -> /MS/test.txt > cp: /MS/test.txt: Operation not permitted > [01:55:23 shaul]$ ls -l /MS/t* > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root dos 0 May 24 01:55 /MS/test.txt Jiri -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with "From ", but no-one remembers why.