[wplug] Win98/Linux data sharing

[Eric C. Cooper]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 09:15:54AM -0700, Elwin Green wrote:
> The partition I want to use for data sharing is named DOS_hdb7.
> 
> # chown elwin:mgr /mnt/DOS_hdb7
> 
> I got this:
> 
> chown: changing ownership of '/mnt/DOS_hdb7':
> Operation not permitted.

The DOS (VFAT) filesystem doesn't support the UNIX notions of owners
or permissions.  That's why you have to use the uid, gid, and umask
options when *mounting* the filesystem.

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u