Re: vfat -> cp: file: Operation not permitted

[Tino Schwarze <tino.schwarze@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>]

Hi there,
> 	I've mounted a vfat partition with these options:
> 
> 	/dev/hda2  /mnt/dos       vfat    defaults,gid=101,umask=0007  
> 
> 	and whenever a user in the 101 group tries a copy a file within
> the filesystem it gets the following error:
> 
> 	cp: file: Operation not permitted
> 
> 	Altough the file actually gets copied.
> 
> 	Is there any way to avoid this message?
No, there is probably not. It comes from the fact that cp tries to set
some permissions on the destination file. That is actually not possible
for VFAT. (I would prefer VFAT to silently ignore that)

Bye, Tino.