[vox-tech] File Permission Issue while downloading files from an ftp location

[Ken Bloom]

On 2003.07.16 01:18, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> 
> > (So far as I know, Windows can't read/write ext2 or ext3
> filesystems,
> > and VFAT doesn't support file permissions, and user/group ownership
> that
> > Unix filesystems do.)
> 
> FYI, [V]FAT supports a 6 file attributes:
> 
>    hidden attribute (if set, file should be hidden)
>    read-only attribute (if set, file isn't writable)
>    system attribute (if set, file shouldn't be moved on the disk)
>    volume attribute (don't worry about this.)
>    archive attribute (if set, file should be archived)
>    directory attribute (don't worry about this either.)

Take a look at my previous post ( Re: [vox-tech] good reference source 
for fstab permissions variables/syntax ) and the mount(8) manpage for 
tips about mounting vfat drives.

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