Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 19:05:56 -0400 (EDT) From: "C J Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net> To: <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> Cc: <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: How to chmod on FAT32 partition? Message-ID: <1076.10.0.0.254.1035587156.squirrel@www.lan.27in.tv> In-Reply-To: <20021025222344.GH32176@thingy.apana.org.au> References: <20021025222344.GH32176@thingy.apana.org.au>
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Some time in the recent past David Gerard scribbled:
>
> OK, got disk up. (Problem was I didn't know its make. ad3s1 eventually
> worked.)
>
> Now it seems I can't make it writable by anyone but root:
>
> diva# ls -l viv.html
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1987 Jul 4 05:21 viv.html
> diva# chmod g+w viv.html
> diva# ls -l viv.html
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1987 Jul 4 05:21 viv.html
> diva# chmod a+w viv.html
> diva# ls -l viv.html
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1987 Jul 4 05:21 viv.html
>
> Same for any files. Is this some sort of FAT32 limitation? Is this
> documented anywhere?
I know it's documented somewhere but I'm too lazy to look right now. I
know for a fact if you search the archives you'll find more detail.
The short answer is that FAT32 has no concept of permissions there's not
way to 'change them' on a per file/dir basis. When you mount a FAT{32}
partition it'll inherrit the permissions of the mount point. So
chown/chmod that directory and re-mount.
>
> - d.
>
--
Chris
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