Re: permission on partition

[Charles Lepple <clepple@gmail.com>]

On Apr 11, 2005 12:14 PM, Björn Schöpe <bjoern.schoepe@gmx.de> wrote:
> But even as root I am not able to change the permissions, why??

FAT and VFAT permissions are a subset of standard POSIX permissions.
Most notably, there is no "owner" stored in the filesystem-- it is
passed as a mount option.

> I believed, defaults might be enough as value. Am I wrong with this?

You might try this set of options instead:

    fmask=0644,dmask=0755,uid=bjosch

changing fmask and dmask to 0600 and 0700, respectively, if you don't
want other users to be able to read the files.

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- Charles Lepple