On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:48 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> i have a beaglebone black with debian installed on the eMMC and i would like
> to write and run programs off the sdcard.
> but when i try to change a bash file to executable:
>
>   chmod +x /media/45AA-4F26/myprogram    (45AA-4F26 is the name of my
> sdcard)
>
> the file does show as an executable:
>
> ls -l /media/45AA-4F26/

fat16/fat32/etc?

> ...
> -rw-r--r-- 1 debian debian    99 May 28 20:24 myprogram
> ....
>
> any idea why this is? is there a permissions issue?

Well fat doesn't support linux permissions...

> Also, when i run "ls -l", it shows debian even though im logged in as root

it was created by the "debian" user..

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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