external USB Drive

[Jim Cornette]

Kevin Waterson wrote:

>I have an external USB drive (fat32) and I can read and
>write to it from the command line but cannot do so
>when using php from the browser. the perms are 0755
>on the external drive and will not allow me to
>change them.
>requested: 0777, actual: 0755): Operation not permitted
>
>any suggestions how I can move files about on the external
>drive using the browser/php?
>
>Kind regards
>Kevin
>  
>
If you are plugging in the USB drive after you are in the GUI, it will 
inherit the GUI user. (console user). If you want to make the VFAT 
readable by other than the user you need to pick a mountpoint and use 
umask settings in the config file where the drive is mounted. You can 
select users for everybody to be able to access it. The other 
permissions are set when you plug in the USB drive by programs included 
with Fedora to mount drives. chmodding even as root is not a function.

Jim