chmod in ntfs/fat file system

[Shino Jacob]

Hi,
I am not able to set chmod in my FAT and ntfs file system.
Whatever I set is not reflected. I tried to umask to 0000, but still same.
I am using ubuntu 9.1
Is there any additional change in fstab entries?

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[Anoop Jacob Thomas]

On Windows file systems, there are no group or other permissions.

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[Deepak]

Hi,
I didn't understand the problem , i think i got similar problem with
my pen drive. Can you tell it little bit clearly.

[Syam Krishnan]

On 03/01/2010 04:35 PM, Deepak wrote:
> Hi,
> I didn't understand the problem , i think i got similar problem with
> my pen drive. Can you tell it little bit clearly.
>

The metadata about a file - ownership permissions, executable flag etc.
are not supported by all filesystems. The FAT32 filesystem (the one
common on older Windows systems) that's commonly used in pen drives
doesn't support any of these.

Syam

[et]

Hi,
I had the same problem. It always showed a 'permission denied'
error while trying to execute files in fat and ntfs partitions.
Anyways after some editing over the fstab entries, i could
successfully run files on any partition.

Here is an example entry from my current fstab file. (I'm also using
Ubuntu 9.10) :

/dev/sda1 /media/M$ ntfs-3g
defaults,user,exec,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/MEDIA vfat
defaults,user,exec,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=000 0 0

As you can see, the same properties work for both fat and ntfs file
systems. Try these exact settings.

[Shino Jacob]

I tried the umask=000, which worked, I was sure that , it was due to
umask, but didnt know fstab has the facility to give it.
Thanks a ton for the help.

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[sunil s]

file permissions won't work on mounted files systems like FAT32.  Use ACL s instead