Re: [Sheflug] FAT32 under Linux

[Joel Cant <joel [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are trying to put UNIX permissions on a filesystem that doesnt 
support it? I think you will find that thats your problem

Joel

J.White wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> This is driving me nuts, maybe somebody has a solution.
>
> I've added a new internal IDE 120 gb drive to a dual WinXP/RH8.0 system.
> I wanted it to be visible under both so I used Partition Magic 8 
> under XP to create 2 partitions (1 gb Linux swap, 118 gb FAT32).
>
> Under XP all ok, mounts and everybody can write to it.
> Under Linux did:  mkfs -t vfat -F32 /dev/hdb5
> So far so good, edited fstab as below 1st /data5 line, 
> mounted it ok, cd /data5, mkdir /paul on it fine, then tried to
> chmod a+w paul (as root) and the blasted thing says no 
> permission!  Neither will it let root chown it to belong to paul.
> Can't chmod or chown /data5 or any file root writes to it.
> And of course paul can't write to it until I manage this so simple job.
> (Oddly enough, paul can delete a file he wrote under XP).
>
> Tried various permutations of permissions entry in fstab and 
> finally got pissed off and went back to XP and Part. Magic and
> remade the partition as ext3, back to Linux and redid 
> mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdb5 and then back in Linux and finally 
> had a useable by everybody FS, except now NOT useable 
> under XP.
>
> This is ridiculous, both /share and /mnt/1394 (firewire external) 
> are FAT32 and work fine under Linux.  I've done something stupid 
> but don't see it.
>
> Cheers,  Jan
>
> lino5:/etc/fstab
> ===========
> LABEL=/	/		ext3	defaults	1 1	# /dev/hda5
> LABEL=/boot	/boot		ext3	defaults	1 2	# /dev/hda3
> /dev/hda2	/share		vfat	defaults	1 1
> /dev/hda6	swap		swap	defaults	0 0
> /dev/cdrom	/mnt/cdrom	iso9660	noauto,owner,kudzu,rw	0 0
> /dev/fd0		/mnt/floppy	auto	noauto,owner,kudzu,rw	0 0
> /dev/sda1	/mnt/1394	auto	noauto,user,sync,exec,rw	0 0
> #/dev/hdb5	/data5		vfat	defaults,rw	0 0
> #/dev/hdb5	/data5		vfat	users,sync,exec,dev,suid,rw	0 0
> /dev/hdb5	/data5		ext3	defaults	0 0
> /dev/hdb6	swap		swap	defaults	0 0
> odin1:/d1a	/d1a		nfs	rw,bg,soft,intr	0 0
> ...
>
> /etc/mtab
> =======
> /dev/hda5 / ext3 rw 0 0
> none /proc proc rw 0 0
> usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
> /dev/hda3 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
> /dev/hda2 /share vfat rw 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
> #/dev/hdb5 /data5 vfat rw 0 0		# previously when FAT32
> /dev/hdb5 /data5 ext3 rw 0 0
> odin1:/d1a /d1a nfs rw,bg,soft,intr,addr=143.167.64.53 0 0
> ...
>
>
>  
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