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Old 02-19-2008, 07:18 AM
Simon
 
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Default Re: Changing permissions on a vfat drive help

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 19:36:47 +0000, Ians G4 <Fantasticthings@ENTEEELworld.com>
wrote:
> Fitted in the Pc is a 30gig HD which I formatted under win2k. The drive is
> mounted under Linux but I can't change the permissions.


The VFAT file-system has no concept of permissions. Have a look at
this FAQ entry:
<URL:http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/cgi-bin/fom?file=82>.


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