[ubuntu-uk] Changing File/Folder permissions

[Matthew Daubney]

On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 12:57 +0100, Stephen Garton wrote:
> Afternoon All,
> 
> I have a spare drive in my machine, formatted as fat32. All of the
> folders in this drive (automounts to /media/storage) as listed as
> being owned by root. When I try to change this (I've tried sudo chown
> -R and sudo nautilus) I get permission denied errors.
> 
> Any idea why this would be, and/or how I can change the permissions to
> my user?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve Garton
> sheepeatingtaz.co.uk

You can use the uid and gid options with mount to make it mount fat32
drives as if you own all the files. e.g.

sudo mount /dev/sdX /media/MOUNTPOINT -o uid=1000,gid=1000

HTH

-Matt Daubney
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