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: LUG: Another Ubuntu Puzzle
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: Ken Whichard <wwhichard@nc.rr.[redacted]>
Date
: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:33:16 -0500
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As I've said before - lots of Solaris SA experience but Ubuntu is
confusing the old man!
Have added a second hard disk to the box running Ubuntu.
Partitioned it into two partitions fat32. I think I have mounted
them since I can cd to each and add files from within Ubuntu.
When I try to ftp from another box, I can list the files on the
partitions but cannot write to the partitions.
Sure enough the permissions are 755 on each of them. No problem, I
sudo chmod 777 - should fix the problem, nope, now they are 744!
OK, I'll fix that - set a root password, su to root and run chmod again -
same result. It seems I cannot set either partition's permissions
to include write for group or world.
Even this -- I touch
test
on one of the partitions, then chmod 722
test and the permissions are -rwx------ ! Go figure
OK - what the heck am I doing wrong?
A puzzled class of '61 grad!
Ken Whichard
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