[wplug] permissions on /mnt/camera

[Tim Quinlan]

I had a similar problem.  You need to specify -t vfat in the mount 
command.


On Mar 27, 2004, at 1:11 PM, Russ Schneider wrote:

> I mount my digital camera as /mnt/camera but I'd like other users 
> (namely
> my wife) to be able to get in that directory without giving out root
> privileges.
>
> I wrote a script with sudo so that all my wife had to do to mount it 
> was
> type in "camera" at the command line and the camera would mount, but I
> can't seem to chmod or chown /mnt/camera:
>
> [root at dell mnt]# chown sugapablo:sugapablo /mnt/camera
> chown: changing ownership of `/mnt/camera': Operation not permitted
> [root at dell mnt]# chmod 777 camera
> [root at dell mnt]# ls -l
> total 36
> drwxr--r--    3 root     root         8192 Dec 31  1969 camera/
>
> Is there something about mounted drives I don't know about?
>
> Also, I have know idea where Dec 31, 1969 comes from either.
>
> -- 
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