On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > ubiquitous1980 wrote: >> >> 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)? >> >> >> > > I don't use these so I am by no means saying they work well. > > sys-fs/ntfs3g > > sys-fs/ntfsprogs > > I have read that the first one works pretty well but no first hand knowledge > if it is true or not. You may want to read this as well. > > http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php > > You may just want to test this with something not so important for a bit and > see how well this works for you.
You could also use ext2 and install the driver on Windows: http://www.fs-driver.org/
