Re: changing permissions for mounted drives

2010-10-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/25/2010 01:27 AM, sumatheja wrote: > Thanks for responding. I have the following line in the /etc/fstab file > > UUID= /home/office vfat uid=500,users,rw,exec 0 0 > > but still the directory is not allowing user with id 500 to write its > only giving read and execute permission. Am i mi

Re: changing permissions for mounted drives

2010-10-25 Thread JD
On 10/25/2010 01:27 AM, sumatheja wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:42 AM, JD wrote: >> On 10/23/2010 10:22 AM, sumatheja wrote: >>> Hi All, >>>I have made a partition in my hard disk and mounted it to >>> /media/xyz. But i'm unable to change the permissions of the mounted >>> dir

Re: changing permissions for mounted drives

2010-10-25 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/25/2010 01:27 AM, sumatheja wrote: > Thanks for responding. I have the following line in the /etc/fstab file > > UUID= /home/office vfat uid=500,users,rw,exec 0 0 > > but still the directory is not allowing user with id 500 to write its > only giving read and execute permission. Am i mi

Re: changing permissions for mounted drives

2010-10-25 Thread sumatheja
Thanks for responding. I have the following line in the /etc/fstab file UUID= /home/office vfat uid=500,users,rw,exec 0 0 but still the directory is not allowing user with id 500 to write its only giving read and execute permission. Am i missing something??? On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:42 AM,

Re: changing permissions for mounted drives

2010-10-24 Thread JD
On 10/23/2010 10:22 AM, sumatheja wrote: > Hi All, > I have made a partition in my hard disk and mounted it to > /media/xyz. But i'm unable to change the permissions of the mounted > directory at all. > I want to give read/write permissions to some of the users other than root. > Well,

Re: changing permissions for mounted drives

2010-10-24 Thread Roberto Ragusa
dasararaju sumatheja wrote: > Hi, > I'm using vfat. So you will never be able to change user or permission for files; the filesystem just doesn't store them. What you need is mount options. man mount Look at "Mount options for fat", you will find that uid, gid, umask, dmask, fmask can hel

Re: changing permissions for mounted drives

2010-10-24 Thread Darr
On Saturday, 23 October, 2010 @21:11 zulu, sumatheja scribed: > i used chown to change the ownership , it din't work. Then i tried > changing the permissions of the directory using chmod even this one > dint work. Why not just start out mounting it in /etc/fstab with the owner and group (e.g. UI

Re: changing permissions for mounted drives

2010-10-24 Thread dasararaju sumatheja
Hi, I'm using vfat. On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > sumatheja wrote: >> i used chown to change the ownership , it din't work. Then i tried >> changing the permissions of the directory using chmod even this one >> dint work. >> > > What type of filesystem are you using

Re: changing permissions for mounted drives

2010-10-24 Thread Roberto Ragusa
sumatheja wrote: > i used chown to change the ownership , it din't work. Then i tried > changing the permissions of the directory using chmod even this one > dint work. > What type of filesystem are you using on that partition? -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- users mailing

Re: changing permissions for mounted drives

2010-10-23 Thread sumatheja
i used chown to change the ownership , it din't work. Then i tried changing the permissions of the directory using chmod even this one dint work. On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Hiisi wrote: > la, 2010-10-23 kello 22:52 +0530, sumatheja kirjoitti: >> Hi All, >>          I have made a partition i

Re: changing permissions for mounted drives

2010-10-23 Thread Hiisi
la, 2010-10-23 kello 22:52 +0530, sumatheja kirjoitti: > Hi All, > I have made a partition in my hard disk and mounted it to > /media/xyz. But i'm unable to change the permissions of the mounted > directory at all. > I want to give read/write permissions to some of the users other than roo

Re: changing permissions for mounted drives

2010-10-23 Thread Vaclav Mocek
On 10/23/2010 06:22 PM, sumatheja wrote: > Sumatheja Dasararaju Well, I suggest to run "man mount" and read the section "File Independent Mount Options". -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/list

changing permissions for mounted drives

2010-10-23 Thread sumatheja
Hi All, I have made a partition in my hard disk and mounted it to /media/xyz. But i'm unable to change the permissions of the mounted directory at all. I want to give read/write permissions to some of the users other than root. -- cheers Sumatheja Dasararaju -- users mailing list users@