root is denied the ability to change permissions?

[Robert Vangel]

Use

$ man mount

and find the section of vfat mount options.

Dennis Calhoun wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 14:44:14 -0800, you wrote:
> 
> 
>>Dennis Calhoun wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 23:19:03 +0100, you wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Am Mi, den 24.12.2003 schrieb Dennis Calhoun um 23:09:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Yup, it seems very odd to me and I've found no way around it, but when
>>>>>I try to use *any* means of changing the permissions on certain
>>>>>things, root is denied the ability to do so. I want to make a slave
>>>>>drive, that I've properly mounted, open for writing to it under my
>>>>>regular username instead of having to log out completely and log back
>>>>>in as root. So far I cannot find a way for root to be able to change
>>>>>this.
>>>>>
>>>>>Any idea why this is and what I can do about it?
>>>>>If more info is needed, please be simple and clear about exactly what
>>>>>you want me to get from where and I will gladly supply it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I bet the drive/partition you are speaking about has a fat32/ntfs
>>>>filesystem on it. On such systems you can't chmod/chown.
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi Alexander
>>>
>>>Yes, it is fat32 (or vfat as linux wants it called). Thing is, as the
>>>owner, root, I can read, write and execute... as any other user I
>>>cannot write to it.
>>>
>>>It really stinks to have to completely log out and then log in as root
>>>to be able to write to that drive. The same situation exits on another
>>>windows partition too. Is there ANY way to enable my regular user to
>>>write to these?
>>
>>  Use one of the fat mount options for mount.
> 
> 
> ONE of? Which one? I've having a hard enough time of learning about
> Linux as it is. This is all so foreign to me that I've NO idea what a
> lot of this stuff means or what it will or will not do.
> 
> Dennis
> 
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