moving files / permissions?

Trevor Smith trevor at haligonian.com
Wed Dec 3 14:53:23 UTC 2003


On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 21:49:38 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:

>The "user" only has permission to write to the disk if he mounted it. 
>Fix your fstab option, unmount the drive, log in as "trevor" and mount 
>the drive as that user.  You will then be able to write to it.

Thanks, that is the trick. I wanted to have it automounted but instead
I just created a new disc object on my desktop and that does all the
auto-mounting for me. Just as good.

>The access failure occurs because your file manager is trying to 
>preserve permissions.  It copies the file (which is fine), then tries to 
>set the user/group and permissions on the new file which can't be done. 
>  vfat doesn't store file owner/group or permissions.

Right! Thanks for the explanation. That alleviates my worry about what
was going wrong.


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 Trevor Smith    |    trevor at haligonian.com






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