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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