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by **mmyns..** » Fri, 14 Jul 2000 04:00:00

I have an empty directory called "/usr/local/share/win98"
I did a "chmod 777 /usr/local/share/win98"

No problem it is now 777.

I mount my win98 partition /dev/sda2

"mount /dev/sda2 /usr/local/share/win98 -t vfat -o defaults"

They I check the access of the /usr/local/share/win98 directory and its
contents and it has all changed. I need all users in group users to
have full access to the contents of this directory.

If I do a "chmod -R 777 /usr/local/share/win98" nothing happens, i.e.
only ROOT has 7 access to the contents of the directory.

The owning user is ROOT and the group is ROOT.

What am I doing wrong?

Any help will be well received.

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by **Keiich** » Fri, 14 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Hi

Quote:> I have an empty directory called "/usr/local/share/win98"
> I did a "chmod 777 /usr/local/share/win98"

> No problem it is now 777.

> I mount my win98 partition /dev/sda2

> "mount /dev/sda2 /usr/local/share/win98 -t vfat -o defaults"

> They I check the access of the /usr/local/share/win98 directory and its
> contents and it has all changed. I need all users in group users to
> have full access to the contents of this directory.

vfat doesn't support permissions. They are emulated by the kernel. It
doesn't use the permissions of the directory in which it is mounted but
those specified by the 'umask' option.

You should use :

mount /dev/sda2 /usr/local/share/win98 -t vfat -o defaults,umask=xxx

with xxx the good umask (000 I guess)...

Quote:> If I do a "chmod -R 777 /usr/local/share/win98" nothing happens, i.e.
> only ROOT has 7 access to the contents of the directory.

> The owning user is ROOT and the group is ROOT.

> What am I doing wrong?

> Any help will be well received.

> --
> MM

Bye

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by **Dances With Cro** » Fri, 14 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Quote:>I mount my win98 partition /dev/sda2
>"mount /dev/sda2 /usr/local/share/win98 -t vfat -o defaults"
>They I check the access of the /usr/local/share/win98 directory and its
>contents and it has all changed. I need all users in group users to
>have full access to the contents of this directory.
>If I do a "chmod -R 777 /usr/local/share/win98" nothing happens, i.e.
>only ROOT has 7 access to the contents of the directory.
>The owning user is ROOT and the group is ROOT.
>What am I doing wrong?

You haven't read the man page for mount. "man mount", paying particular
attention to the options for a VFAT filesystem. Since VFAT doesn't know
about permissions, all permissions are set at mount time, and the default
options make it so that the umask is 022 and all files are owned by the
mounting user's UID and GID. If you mount the drive with "mount -t vfat
/dev/sda2 /mnt/win98 -o umask=002,uid=0,gid=users" then things will work
better.

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