On 2009-09-11 01:23 +0200, Mike McClain wrote: > This has nothing to do with Debian per se but my system is mostly Etch, so. > > man mount says: > quiet Turn on the quiet flag. Attempts to chown or chmod files do not > return errors, although they fail. Use with caution!
This is in the "Mount options for fat" section. I don't know what will happen if you use this option for better filesystems, but I suspect that either there will be an error message, or it will be ignored. > While I can see where this could have unpleasant repercussions when > used on a 'nix partition, it seems to be called for on a MSDOS > partition and I can see no repercussions. > > Am I missing something? Actually, the chmod and chown calls do not report an error even if you do _not_ use the quiet option. They did in Linux 2.6.25, but it caused a lot of grief in applications, so the kernel developers relaxed the checks again in later versions. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
