[Bulk] [QCLUG] I do not have permissions....

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 01:59:10PM +0000, j.brun@mchsi.com wrote:
> file system is vfat.  the directory doesn't allow me to change permissions, not
> even as root.

Because vfat as a filesystem has no concept of permissions.  You need to set
the permissions for the entire vfat filesystem at mount time; see the
description of the uid, gid, umask, dmask, and fmask mount options in the
mount(8) manpage.

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