From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NoYAa-0004Rw-OE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:18:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50B89E0B3B; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:17:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26A7AE0B3B for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:17:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwj19 with SMTP id 19so2527221gwj.40 for ; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:17:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=UBya/PSv1v7erbFmsTwMIVfBY2WWJKY3zO6a+sPAH6s=; b=hDr3KW+H72SMu0ZHo+sSEHAA4Vfcoc253+oydgu8SndbZ4G58zFEBiP3VxORUFHKxu q0yir2P0xjzdM0aXwihCcXUkqi5egx5Wi7Fnp+7WuYmBJUOVsP5j1mfzIFJTX3unaxP9 43CDmISU3oOKNPljI97006TRovz8iz4+XLTe0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Gg4hceWW87F4x5GuilHdR31KcXlM13HgI1ozd54ywSbmKAsruFDaCz2yfbmotUbDmV vGjpdxZomBG6DVk1zkqLOlQBstp/+wRs8U5CjZgBRe11NwQSMRJjTvF0AGvnnZJgy/Gi jVOviP3PAktEptitW4ZoixQwhI3scseUc9UpE= Received: by 10.100.20.24 with SMTP id 24mr3629018ant.38.1268036270723; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:17:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.1] (adsl-0-90-144.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.90.144]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm1742515ywi.36.2010.03.08.00.17.48 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:17:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B94B2AA.3010209@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:17:46 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100304 Gentoo/2.0.3 SeaMonkey/2.0.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot edit files on usb flash drive. References: <4B9499CC.2020003@gmail.com> <201003080846.21744.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4B94A833.7090106@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B94A833.7090106@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4cb356b9-34a1-46a3-a711-607e7c581be3 X-Archives-Hash: f83124a86637123c279a1ff285dfef84 ubiquitous1980 wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Monday 08 March 2010 08:31:40 ubiquitous1980 wrote: >> >> >>> I have a usb flash drive which will not allow me to edit its files. I >>> have tried chmod a+rwx -R $files but this does still not permit >>> editing. Further, the files within the directories refuse to have >>> ownership changed via chown $myusername -R /mnt/disk. Output is: >>> operation not permitted. Any ideas? Thanks. >>> >>> >> This happens when the flash drive is type vfat. This excuse for a file system >> does not have a concept of owners and permissions so the kernel has to fudge >> it. You are finding that you cannot change these for the simple reason that >> they do not exist and the kernel is pretending they are owned by root with >> MODE 755 or some such. >> >> If hal is mounting the device, check your hal config, looking for some likely >> named option. >> >> > What config file would this be? Can I find it in the handbook? > >> If the device is mounted via /etc/fstab, adjust the uid/gid/umask/dmask/fmask >> options to mount in column 4. Full details in the man page, under section >> "fat" >> >> >> >> > I need to interact with university computers from time to time, any > other file system with proper permissions, to be used under both linux > and windows (without additional drivers)? > > > I don't use these so I am by no means saying they work well. sys-fs/ntfs3g sys-fs/ntfsprogs I have read that the first one works pretty well but no first hand knowledge if it is true or not. You may want to read this as well. http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php You may just want to test this with something not so important for a bit and see how well this works for you. Dale :-) :-)