Re: [Sheflug] More 'ownership' things :-(

[Chris Butler <chrisb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:20:23PM +0100, Ruth Gunstone wrote:
> It may help to know that the folder in question exists on a FAT32 partition,
> which one of you chaps (sorry I can't remember your name) helped to set-up.
> I've noticed that any new folder created on the partition is in group 'root'.

All the permissions on a FAT32 filesystem are actually controlled by the
mount options in /etc/fstab. You can't actually change them using the
standard chmod/chown tools, you'll have to edit them in /etc/fstab instead.
Of course, editing /etc/fstab will change the permissions for everything on
that filesystem.

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Chris
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