[ale] Permission hell question

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 15:17, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> > when the zip platter is mounted via the "mount /mnt/zip" command
> > listed above, the "mount" command returns this line (among others):
> > 
> > /dev/hdd4 on /mnt/zip type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev)
> 
> Well .. Chris Coleman asked the right question:
> > Was the zip drive formatted with a linux filesystem?
> 
> The answer is no - you using vfat.
> 
> Since vfat format does not support owner/group information
> this is faked by the file system implementation.
> The two ways to mount the fs (mount,gui) cause the fs to be mounted
> with different parameters ( gid=users,uid=nobody,...) to fake
> the values.
> 
> 
Yep. What he said. Yesterday. Now it's today. I'm behind.

.

> 	Stephan
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