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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