Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot edit files on usb flash drive.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> 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.
>>      
> You could also use ext2 and install the driver on Windows:
> http://www.fs-driver.org/
>
>    

The computers belong to a university so he may not be able to install 
any drivers.

Dale

:-)  :-)