Hello,
I have recently installed a new hard drive on my OpenSuse. It used to be an external drive. It is FAT formated, and I don’t want to change that, since it is kind of full.
After I installed the drive and made the necessary changes to etc/fstab, I have rwx permissions on all directories (as wanted) except one (local/Music).
I read somewhere that permissions cannot be changed with chmod on FAT partitions, since they don’t support unix permissions…
Taking that into consideration, I cannot understand how one directory can have distinct permissions than the others.
How can I change the permissions on that directory?
Thank you,
Nikos
What is the permission showing for that directory?
dr-xr-xr-x…
quite strange…
and here is the fstab entry
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_HDS725050KLAT80_KRVA05ZAJZ9THF-part1 /local vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0.,
but as I said I only have problems with this one directory…
That shows a read-only permission. FAT has that capability (to make a file/directory read-only). I think the vfat driver is actually supporting that bit. (Need to read up on that or someone else can clarify).
Just change it and see if it survives across unmount/mount.
somehow I was kind of confused when I tried it yesterday and used the wrong octal permissions. Meaning: while I wanted to give rwxrwxrwx (777) I gave 700. Even though i do not exactly understand why changing permissions to 700 is not permitted, changing them to 777 worked…so mission accomplished…
thank you!
That means the read-only flag on FAT file system is respected in the vfat implementation.