Re: help - fat partition will not allow chgrp on any subfolder

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 09/28/03 

Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 10:54:05 +0200

tone <dmclaude@yahoo.com> wrote:
> all,

> i have a fat partition which is mounted as hda5 at mount point (?)
> shared.. so if i cd to /shared i should be on this partition (forgive
> the simple language.. im a real newbie)..

> now if i go in as root and ...

> /shared # mkdir tone

> and then try to

> /shared # chgrp users tone

> i get --

> chgrp: changing group of `tonny': Operation not permitted

As expected, fat doesn't contain any info about users/groups/etc,
you set them while mounting.

Try:
$ man 8 mount

And check "Mount options for fat".

Somehow get the feeling I saw your question elsewhere, already answered?
Strange... 

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Michael Heiming
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