[ale] another weird problem

[Sean Kilpatrick]

On Friday 06 July 2007 21:50, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
| It sounds like you are mounting FATxx media (which doesn't support
| filesystem permissions in any way) into your directory tree. ?You can
| use the uid option for the file system:
| 
| $ mount /dev/sda1 -t vfat -o uid=myuser,gid=myuser,quiet /mnt/foo
| 
| For FATxx file systems, that says to make the directory tree and all
| descendants owned by user myuser, group myuser, and to not whine about
| being unable to chmod/chown when copying files to the device (which can
| be a problem for programs like Midnight Commander, when you want to move
| an entire directory tree).
| 
| ? ? --- Mike

Thanks for the tip.  I'm saving it.

Sean

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