Samba continued . . .

A Duston hald at sound.net
Sat Jul 27 03:30:12 CDT 2002


Bradley Miller wrote:
> 
> Actually I was looking through some thing online and I don't know why for
> sure it couldn't work for writing.  Actually, let me re-phrase that.  I can
> read/write/modify when I'm logged in as root on that partition.  It's weird
> I can't chown anyhing on there as root . . . so it goes.

You can't chown anything on there as root, _because_ it's a vfat32 filesystem
vfat32 doesn't have anyplace to store the owner/group/mode items.  The 
user/group is set globally at mount time, and the mode is generated on 
the fly.

> >Although I wasn't aware that the file system used for 'doze98 was one of
> >the ones that mounted read only.

vfat32 _is_ read/write from Linux.

Hal




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