Re: mount permission problems
> I've been struggling for the last few days trying to get my wife's
> Win95 laptop to access her Quicken files that I have on a fat16
> partition on my linux machine. There is something about 'mount' that
> is eluding me.
it's been eluding me a couple of times too...
vfat just doesn't have the place to store owner, group and full
permissions needed by unix filesystems! so chmod or chown on a vfat
partition are basically meaningless.
you can set owner and permissions for the whole filesystem with vfat
specific mount options: see man mount to see them all; you'll probably
need umask.
hope it helps!
pietro.
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