[ubuntu-uk] Changing File/Folder permissions

[Stephen Garton]

2009/4/27 mac <ammonius.grammaticus at gmx.co.uk>

> Stephen Garton wrote:
> > I have a spare drive in my machine, formatted as fat32...
> > Any idea why this would be, and/or how I can change the permissions to my
> > user?
>
> AFAIK you can't set permissions on FAT32
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Cheers mac,

Looks like I'm going to have to find some spare drives to move ~150GB of
data off so I can reformat as ext3!

PS, it's only fat32 as I used to have it in a net disk caddy that required
it, I just moved it from thecaddy with it's data intact into a machine.

Cheers,

Steve Garton
sheepeatingtaz.co.uk
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