Changing folder/drive ownership..

[Twinkle]

Hi,,,


I am mounting my fat drive to /media/fat ... I want to have full ownership of the drive .. I have rw set up but I want ownership to be able of changing files/folders properties and such so ...


I tried chown user /dev/hdc1 and chown user /media/fat ... didn't work ? I get operation not permitted error....

[devils casper]

in fstab file, umask value should be 0...

/dev/<partition> /media/fat vfat defaults,rw,umask=0 0 0



.... casper ....

[Twinkle]

Hi,,,


My fstab look like this :

/dev/hdc1        /media/fat     vfat    rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0

It has 4 zeros .. should I remove them ...

[devils casper]

change it and see if you get permission to write......



.... casper ....

[Twinkle]

Hi..

Still can't change files/folders ownership !!

I get :

home:/media/fat# chown devil /media/fat
chown: changing ownership of `/media/fat': Operation not permitted

And nothing if I run chown devil /dev/hdc1 !!!

[devils casper]

Hi !!

you can't change ownership of a drive.... default owner is superuser/root only.
superuser can enable/disable read or write access to users. why you need to change ownership of a drive?





.... casper ....

[Twinkle]

I needed to change the ownership to be able of using unison to sync a few folders between my vfat drive and ext3 drive..
It was giving me the "no permission error"

After alot of searching I added this to my fstab:

/dev/hdc1        /media/fat     vfat    rw,auto,umask=0,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

And then chown it to change user and it worked YaY

Now I can sync folders with no problem between vfat and ext3...

Thanx for ur help

[devils casper]

Hi !!

i should say thanks to you.
you solved this problem yourself and taught me tooooo.....
thanx !




.... casper ....

[Twinkle]

Hi !!

i should say thanks to you.
you solved this problem yourself and taught me tooooo.....
thanx !




.... casper ....

Happy to learn and thank u for being so helpful

Cheers ..