[Tfug] Bizarre permissions situation...

[Jim March]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:50 PM, John Gruenenfelder
<johng at as.arizona.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:06:38PM -0700, Jim March wrote:
>>I intend to run Rockbox on it, but only once I have the permissions
>>issues sorted out.
>>
>>Which still ain't working despite:
>>
>>/dev/sdb1       /media/disk auto user,noauto,uid=1000   0  0
>>
>>...in fstab.
>>
>>I just used gparted to confirm it's /dev/sdb1 and I triple-checked my uid.
>>
>>If anybody can help...I'd really appreciate it.  This blows.
>
> You can't change the permissions/ownership for any of those files (via
> chmod/chown, anyway) on the device because FAT32 does not support permissions
> of any kind.
>
> Now, without the uid= option, the ownership should be set to whomever mounts
> it.  If root mounts it, then root owns all of the files, and if your user
> mounts it, then he will own all of the files.  The uid= option *should* fix
> all of that, however...  You could try adding gid=1000 as well.
>
> So, what happens when you mount the device, not as root but as your user, with
> or without the uid= option?  Who owns the files according to ls -l?  What
> permissions do they have?

Welll...the truly weird thing now is that if I plug it in and mount it
at the command line via sudo, it works "for root only".  If I then
pull it and re-mount it, it works in the normal, friendly, auto-detect
fashion fully read-write for my regular username.

Grrr.

I'm going to be reformatting anyways to 32bit instead of 64, too many
odd glitches right now.  So it'll probably be OK after that.

Jim