check mount(8), i believe you will find a way to specify what user owns all the vfat partition files at mount time. the ownership and permissions you expect are not available inside vfat..
"Caleb Chaplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Please excuse me if this has been asked plenty times before, but I'm having > trouble establishing read/write/exec permissions of a directory on a vfat > partition and nothing I try seems to work. Namely, variations on chown and > chmod never seem to work on any folders there and root remains the only user > who can actually copy files there. I'm trying to give a roomate her own > directory on a vfat storage partition with total control over it's contents, > be it copying/modifying files there or adding new directories. Some google > searching yielded a hint that vfat was never designed with group permissions > in mind and therefore doesn't respond to them, but I can't help but feel I'm > missing something totally obvious here. > > If someone could spell out the obvious for me I'd be grateful, thanks. > > Caleb _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
