Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:14:38 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unable to change ownership on USB device Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701191513550.2795@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CY4PR20MB1397C17C84AC7E33774C910B807E0@CY4PR20MB1397.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> References: <CY4PR20MB139712D6DDA57E1A6F7BFB5A807E0@CY4PR20MB1397.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <447f5qloal.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <CY4PR20MB1397C17C84AC7E33774C910B807E0@CY4PR20MB1397.namprd20.prod.outlook.com>
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2017, Gerard Seibert wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:42:26 -0500, Lowell Gilbert stated: > >> carmel_ny writes: >> >>> I have several USB devices, all formatted with FAT32 or exFat. I can >>> mount them on my FreeBSD 11 machine; however, I cannot change the >>> file ownership on the device. I have a rsync script for backing up >>> the "/var/mail/vmail" and it subdirectories that are created by >>> dovecot. I cannot use the script to back up to the USB drive since >>> it cannot change the file ownership. >>> >>> I hope I am explaining this correctly. My question is how do I >>> change the ownership of a mounted USB drive formated with FAT32 or >>> exFat? >> >> It's an option to the mount command. >> If you're using the one from the base system, see "man mount_msdosfs". > > I configured the system to automount the drive. I suppose I could > just unmount it with "automount -fu" and them remount it via > mount_msdosfs. I will give it a try. There is an example of how to pass parameters through the main mount command in the mount man page. Search for "option=value".
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