Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 08 March 2010 08:31:40 ubiquitous1980 wrote:
>
>> I have a usb flash drive which will not allow me to edit its files. I
>> have tried chmod a+rwx -R $files but this does still not permit
>> editing. Further, the files within the directories refuse to have
>> ownership changed via chown $myusername -R /mnt/disk. Output is:
>> operation not permitted. Any ideas? Thanks.
>>
>
> This happens when the flash drive is type vfat. This excuse for a file system
> does not have a concept of owners and permissions so the kernel has to fudge
> it. You are finding that you cannot change these for the simple reason that
> they do not exist and the kernel is pretending they are owned by root with
> MODE 755 or some such.
>
> If hal is mounting the device, check your hal config, looking for some likely
> named option.
>
What config file would this be? Can I find it in the handbook?
> If the device is mounted via /etc/fstab, adjust the uid/gid/umask/dmask/fmask
> options to mount in column 4. Full details in the man page, under section
> "fat"
>
>
>
I need to interact with university computers from time to time, any
other file system with proper permissions, to be used under both linux
and windows (without additional drivers)?
