Forgive me if this has been answered a buncha times already; I'm
hopelessly behind in following this list!
Anyway, it took me a long time to work this out but . . .
For vfat partitions, whoever mounted it gets to write; others get to
read.
So just specifiy the "user" option and whoever wants to write to it
should 'umount' it and then 'mount' it and voila! they can write to it.
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| I can tell you the reason but not the fix. The partition is formatted as FAT,
| which has no concept of ownership. Thus, the ownership for it is determined
| by Linux. There is a way to change it; I wish I could tell you. I have a
| drive in the same position: I have tried using Linuxconf to let users write to
| it, but it keeps coming up as read-only for non-root users. I have been
| su'ing to root to store stuff there. Does anyone know how to change this?
|
| -Andrew Vick
|
| >===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =====
| [snip]
| >[root@F11-pc-3B022-1 DOS_hdd1]# chown -v wapether Wayne/
| >failed to change owner of Wayne to wapether
| >chown: Wayne: Operation not permitted
| >[root@F11-pc-3B022-1 DOS_hdd1]#
| >
| >What is the specific command I use to change ownership of this directory
| >to my user profile?
| >
| >Wayne
| >
| >
| >********************************
| >********************************
| >Wayne Petherick
| >Criminology Department
| >Bond University
| >********************************
| >********************************
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