Hi,

I've got Slack 9.1 installed on my PC. I have it on a 10gig HD in a caddy, if
I want to use Windows 2k (server) I take the caddy out and plug in a 20gig HD
with Win2k on it (after shutting down first of course!).

Fitted in the Pc is a 30gig HD which I formatted under win2k. The drive is
mounted under Linux but I can't change the permissions. The owner is root
which has rxw access, group is root which has r access, but if I try to add
permissions to the root group or change the group it tells me I'm not
allowed.
I've tried to repartition the drive using fdisk and cfdisk but it doesn't do
anything. I repartition and write out and when I ls the same files are on the
drive. I assume this is the permissions?

I'm sharing the drive via Samba which works fine but only if you connect as
root, which is why I want to change the permissions.

I've tried chown and chmod but no joy.

So how do I regain control of the drive under Linux? Once I do if I boot into
Win2k will it change the permissions again? I want the drive accessable from
Windows too. The drive isn't shared under Win2k.

TIA

Ian

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 19:36:47 +0000, Ians G4 <Fantasticthings@ENTEEELworld.com>
wrote:
> Fitted in the Pc is a 30gig HD which I formatted under win2k. The drive is
> mounted under Linux but I can't change the permissions.

The VFAT file-system has no concept of permissions. Have a look at
this FAQ entry:
<URL:http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/cgi-bin/fom?file=82>.


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man mount ;-)

Have a look for vfat option, like uid,gid or dmask

Le 01/06/2004 08:36 PM, Ians G4 a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I've got Slack 9.1 installed on my PC. I have it on a 10gig HD in a caddy, if
> I want to use Windows 2k (server) I take the caddy out and plug in a 20gig HD
> with Win2k on it (after shutting down first of course!).
>
> Fitted in the Pc is a 30gig HD which I formatted under win2k. The drive is
> mounted under Linux but I can't change the permissions. The owner is root
> which has rxw access, group is root which has r access, but if I try to add
> permissions to the root group or change the group it tells me I'm not
> allowed.
> I've tried to repartition the drive using fdisk and cfdisk but it doesn't do
> anything. I repartition and write out and when I ls the same files are on the
> drive. I assume this is the permissions?
>
> I'm sharing the drive via Samba which works fine but only if you connect as
> root, which is why I want to change the permissions.
>
> I've tried chown and chmod but no joy.
>
> So how do I regain control of the drive under Linux? Once I do if I boot into
> Win2k will it change the permissions again? I want the drive accessable from
> Windows too. The drive isn't shared under Win2k.
>
> TIA
>
> Ian
>

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 19:40:27 +0000, Simon wrote
(in message <slrnbvm3pb.9go.usenet@dustpuppy.no-dns-yet.org.uk>):

>
> The VFAT file-system has no concept of permissions. Have a look at
> this FAQ entry:
> <URL:http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/cgi-bin/fom?file=82>.
>
>
>
Thanks for that. It sort of works, although I'm having trouble copying large
amounts of files in one go. I'm going to reformat as a linux disk and see if
that helps. Nuts to Windows!