Re: Use of chown/chgrp

[Bob Proulx]

>     address@hidden /root]# chgrp -c  trusted /mnt/waterfall/Audio/
>     chgrp: /mnt/waterfall/Audio/: Operation not permitted
[...]
> I checked up on the error message in the Linux FAQ and it occurrs when
> a file's attribute blocks the operation. lsattr & chattr work only for
> Linux file systems so I cannot check or change, if this is the direct
> cause. I also 'fiddled' mount to see if there was an option there that
> could be used, no luck though.
> 
> Basically I want my user account to have write access (which only root
> has at the moment).  I can use chmod to give all users write access,
> but it is a bit of a dirty hack and also is resets every time the
> partions are mounted. I could add the group root to my user account,
> but then I might as well login as root.

Hmm...  This is probably not a good forum for discussion of your
problem since it isn't something that fileutils can or cannot do
anything about.  The "Operation not permitted" is coming from the
filesystem in the kernel.  I suggest you take your question to one of
the comp.os.linux news groups where people more in tune with linux
could help.  I will bet you get a better answer over there.

One problem is that win98 has no concept of user, group, other,
filemode.  So when mounting a vfat filesystem into unix space some
things just have to be made up.  This is made up by the filesystem
driver and not fileutils.  fileutils just works with what is provided.
It looks like the filesystem driver makes them up to be root which is
reasonable on first glance.  But since on a win98 machine everyone is
a superuser it might make sense to make the permissions open.  But I
also don't know how to do that.

As to making your home directory the same on both, I think that is a
bad idea because the two files systems don't have the same
functionality.  Also I don't really know what a home directory on
win98 would be.  The whole disk is effectively a home directory on
win98.

Try posting your question to comp.os.linux.setup and see what they
come up with over there.

Good Luck!
Bob