[ubuntu-uk] Changing File/Folder permissions

[Matthew Daubney]

On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 14:28 +0100, mac wrote:
> Matthew Daubney wrote:
> > 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
> 
> 
> That's useful to know.  I guess, though, you couldn't preserve other 
> ownerships / permissions if you tried to rsync to a FAT32 drive?
> 
> mac

Unfortunately not, as those things are stored by the file system. You
can set the default permissions for things though, but I can't remember
the option for that off the top of my head.

-Matt Daubney
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