Can anyone suggest why I can't seem to change permissions of files on a disk-on-key mounted on my PI? The chmod command reports success, but nothing has changed. BTW - all commands over SSH
Here's the Raspbian version: pi@raspberrypi /media/D80C-5ACC/pictures $ uname -a Linux raspberrypi 3.18.7-v7+ #755 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 12 17:20:48 GMT 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux Here's the relevant line from /etc/fstab on the PI: /dev/sda1 /media/D80C-5ACC vfat defaults,noatime 0 1 pi@raspberrypi /media/D80C-5ACC/pictures $ ls -la total 52484 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 10 19:51 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3387111 Mar 3 08:32 a.jpg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3470696 Mar 3 08:31 b.jpg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2924927 Mar 3 08:30 c.jpg << snip snip >> pi@raspberrypi /media/D80C-5ACC/pictures $ sudo chmod -v -R 777 * mode of `a.jpg' changed from 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) mode of `b.jpg' changed from 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) mode of `c.jpg' changed from 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) << snip snip >> pi@raspberrypi /media/D80C-5ACC/pictures $ ls -la total 52484 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 10 19:51 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3387111 Mar 3 08:32 a.jpg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3470696 Mar 3 08:31 b.jpg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2924927 Mar 3 08:30 c.jpg -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by Claws Mail 3.11.1 - KDE 4.12.15 - LINUX Mageia 4 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
