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

[Ruth Gunstone <ruth [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <20030618194909.GV27509 [at] courgette.jml.net>
          Chris Butler <chrisb [at] courgette.jml.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 

That's fine by me!

The relevant entry seems to be:

/dev/hda6 /home/ruth/Data vfat umask=022,uid=501	0 0


??? !

TTFN!
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Ruth Gunstone          (ruth at bolsterstone dot demon dot co dot uk)

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