moving files / permissions?

dsavage at peaknet.net dsavage at peaknet.net
Wed Dec 3 16:30:58 UTC 2003


On Wednesday December 3, 2003 "Trevor Smith" <trevor at haligonian.com> wrote:
> 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.

Trevor,

There is also a "users" option for /etc/fstab that should allow you to use
automount. Like "loop", "users" is [badly] documented in 'man mount', and
the stock colorization file for vim will make you think it's not legal. It
is.

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL







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