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Author: Rob Wultsch
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Subject: changing file permissions
/stuff is vfat.I have it automaticly mounted with a line in my
/etc/fstab that reads:
/dev/hda2 /stuff vfat auto,user,umask=000 0 0

I am discouraged by:
root@fearlessrogue:/home/rob# chown rob:rob /stuff
chown: changing ownership of `/stuff': Operation not permitted


Any suggestions???

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Thu, 22 May 2003 wrote:
>
>
>>root@fearlessrogue:/# chown rob.rob /stuff
>>chown: changing ownership of `/stuff': Operation not permitted
>
>
> I assume that /stuff is not a Unix-type filesystem.
>
> Maybe, use your mount options to choose which uid (and gid) should be used
> when it is mounted in the first place.
>
> Have a look at the "mount" output and look at /etc/fstab.
>
>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://www.reedmedia.net/

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