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 1Nogf7-0000En-SA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:22:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6447EE08BD; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:22:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com (qw-out-1920.google.com [74.125.92.148]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C02CE08BD for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:22:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 14so747349qwa.10 for ; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:22:08 -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=D808XBLEjsTs12dCskhX43yi9NdLu91iWgdU3enJ9bE=; b=mEYpMpQVUa9Xagiz2IRzmO9ySQrJ5FED1W/oQgKz5qeWIU6EO8pvlaPG28yxrzPe5p ZP7M6ziZthMYwfXaJsQAYlLMYxdT/aXSRhW/lz/WjyERMvQC3cH/N2lJbB6Fr0xumz28 xKwJVLoemCh9Cl2+TzAXFrJSxI/arMFK1O2dg= 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=jAGRMXTPszXXtw5Xsl36oQWp2xgAFZk+MdaLEatsxdC45z45Si+f+wEmwLpWqd4Q98 Eqqbm5QlVnhBuFy00qwzaWdGoaWIMFewE5nCXdsmbl2Yeh0WK9YAm1wgqDS4dV7KtrAx B1YCY1hSU7EfnDDKrkZcjOY54IP3x11mfpfRw= Received: by 10.229.128.165 with SMTP id k37mr2540784qcs.53.1268068927748; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:22:07 -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 7sm1886501ywf.40.2010.03.08.09.22.04 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:22:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B95323B.2090503@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:22:03 -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> <4B94B2AA.3010209@gmail.com> <58965d8a1003080852k4ae54966l711bc199305a0e9b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58965d8a1003080852k4ae54966l711bc199305a0e9b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 033b3894-645d-4b94-b8a6-91f3666b4611 X-Archives-Hash: 593c7eff7fd034123f6a5f8f69fd4417 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Dale 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 :-) :-)