[vox-tech] vfat and permissions - anyone seen this before?

[Ryan]

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Vfat has some permission flags, hidden, system, archive, and read only.

Perhaps you had one of these set?

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On Monday, March 11 2002 05:40 pm, Ken Bloom wrote:
> I have a vfat partition mounted as follows, and it has some permissions
> wierdness
> #from /etc/fstab
> /dev/hda6 /home/bloom/mydocs vfat
> iocharset=3Diso8859-1,umask=3D077,gid=3D501,codepage=3D850,noexec,uid=3D=
501 0 0
>
> When I first set it up, the directories on the partition had the
> following permissions: (the files which I omitted using grep all had
> permissions: 0700)
> drwx------    3 bloom    bloom        4096 Mar  1 17:03 Adobe/
> drwx------    3 bloom    bloom        4096 Dec  2 15:28 AFI/
> drwx------    2 bloom    bloom        4096 Jan  6 15:13 Birkat/
> drwx------    2 bloom    bloom        4096 Jan 18 00:28 coopapp/
> drwx------    4 bloom    bloom        4096 Jul 24  2001 Devices/
> drwx------    2 bloom    bloom        4096 Jul  8  2001 Documentation/
> drwx------   12 bloom    bloom        4096 Mar 11 08:32 Downloads/
> drwx------    3 bloom    bloom        4096 Jul  9  2001 Fax/
> drwx------    4 bloom    bloom        4096 Jan 14 13:13 Finances/
> drwx------    4 bloom    bloom        4096 Jul  8  2001 Hack/
> drwx------    2 bloom    bloom        4096 Jan  1 16:24 kyack/
> drwx------    7 bloom    bloom        4096 Mar  1 17:05 MP3s/
> dr-x------    3 bloom    bloom        4096 Mar 11 13:43 My Pictures/
> dr-x------    3 bloom    bloom        4096 Mar  1 16:54 Pictures/
> drwx------   16 bloom    bloom        4096 Oct  7 16:07 Programming/
> drwx------    8 bloom    bloom        4096 Jan 16 18:05 School Work/
>
> I was wondering why the kernel chose for this to happen, and was going
> to make that the major question of my post. The permissions had effect,
> so it wasn't just a display bug (I really was not allowed to copy files
> into the two pictures directories, for example, but I was able to copy
> files into the others)
>
> Then I decided to try to chmod the two folders with `chmod +x Pictures
> 'My Pictures'`. I expected it to spit out an error message saying that =
I
> couldn't do that because it was a vfat partition. Surprisingly it
> worked. My directory listing is now
> drwx------    3 bloom    bloom        4096 Mar  1 17:03 Adobe/
> drwx------    3 bloom    bloom        4096 Dec  2 15:28 Aggies for Isra=
el/
> drwx------    2 bloom    bloom        4096 Jan  6 15:13 Birkat/
> drwx------    2 bloom    bloom        4096 Jan 18 00:28 coopapp/
> drwx------    4 bloom    bloom        4096 Jul 24  2001 Devices/
> drwx------    2 bloom    bloom        4096 Jul  8  2001 Documentation/
> drwx------   12 bloom    bloom        4096 Mar 11 08:32 Downloads/
> drwx------    3 bloom    bloom        4096 Jul  9  2001 Fax/
> drwx------    4 bloom    bloom        4096 Jan 14 13:13 Finances/
> drwx------    4 bloom    bloom        4096 Jul  8  2001 Hack/
> drwx------    2 bloom    bloom        4096 Jan  1 16:24 kyack/
> drwx------    7 bloom    bloom        4096 Mar  1 17:05 MP3s/
> drwx------    3 bloom    bloom        4096 Mar 11 13:43 My Pictures/
> drwx------    3 bloom    bloom        4096 Mar  1 16:54 Pictures/
> drwx------   16 bloom    bloom        4096 Oct  7 16:07 Programming/
> drwx------    8 bloom    bloom        4096 Jan 16 18:05 School Work/
>
> I decided to see whether rebooting the computer would have any effect
> (perhaps the permissions I assigned were cached in RAM somewhere.) When
> I rebooted, the permissions were the same (everything was 0700).
>
> So here are my questions:
>
> Why did the system originally decide that the two pictures folders
> should not be writable?
> What did the system change when I ran the chmod command?
>
> I'm using kernel 2.4.18-4mdk.
> I swear I'm not using UMSDOS.
>
>
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