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In my System, there is an old FAT32-formatted hdd running for filesharing-use. It is mounted vfat defaults 1 1.
I tried changing the ownership of the files on that disk with chown and -even as root- got the error message operation not permitted
What Do I have to change, so the files belong to nobody and can easilier be rw-shared with samba???
fat 32 files don't have permissions... that's a linux/unix/bsd thing. when you write a file to a fat32 partition from windows, linux treats the file as a fat32 file, not linux file... thus, no permissions.
This is WRONG tho!!! and i don't quite know what the EXACT right options are, the umask=000 makes all files writeable etc.. to everyone, but i still have various problems writing to them from win98...
Can someone define the definitive options required for this? please?
I get problems such as when i untar an archive onto a fat32 drive, i get lots of permision denieds, and cannot create link problems (i think that's what they were...). Pretty vague.... I'll change my settings to your ones, and see if it's any better...
I thought about it a bit and probably this is the solution:
Since FAT32 doesn't support ownership of files tar will have a problem setting the correct properties. You should get the same errors using chmod or chown.
So: Don't worry about the errors. If those are important files you should be aware that any user can access and modify them!
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