Changing permissions on USB flash drive mounted on /dev/sda1 in a RedHat 9 box

[Mike Zupan]

if the drive is formated as fat32 or ntfs they do not know of linux type
permissions. So if that is the case.. you must umask that partition at mount
time

mike

On 16 Mar 2007 18:39:00 +0000, Andy Allen <andy.allen at virgin.net> wrote:
>
> I can't change the permissions on a USB flash drive mounted on /dev/sda1
> even when root - really frustrating as the drive is mounted in my user
> area, but I have to log on as root every time I want to write to the
> drive. Any suggestions as to how I can change permissions (chmod) or
> owner (chown) for this device? - thanks,
>
> Andy
>
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