[buug] Partition Sharing
Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com
Sun Jul 9 19:08:54 PDT 2000
begin Zeke Krahlin quotation:
> Using Linux (Mandrake 6.1), I want to be able to, as user (not root),
> open and edit and save these files onto a vfat partition. As root, I
> have tried "chown" on these vfat files, but got only failed results,
> like so:
>
> Operation not permitted.
>
> Now, that makes sense not to run a Linux command to alter files, on a
> vfat partition. But I'm hoping there is a work-around...other than just
> staying in "root" mode.
I believe there are "mount" options to set the owning user/group and
rights mask of partitions like vfat that don't actually have that
information in them. Like this, from the mount(8) manpage:
Mount options for affs
uid=value and gid=value
Set the owner and group of the root of the file
system (default: uid=gid=0, but with option uid or
gid without specified value, the uid and gid of the
current process are taken).
setuid=value and setgid=value
Set the owner and group of all files.
mode=value
Set the mode of all files to value & 0777 disre-
garding the original permissions. Add search per-
mission to directories that have read permission.
The value is given in octal.
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