[wellylug] Need some help with Gentoo

[Jamie Dobbs]

I fully understand your explanation but I honestly can't see how that
works. The same thing would work find under Mandrake and RadHat with no
problems so why won't it work with Gentoo?

Also according to your explanation there is no way around this problem
which basically means that I have wasted 3-4 days of my time installing
Gentoo and all of the supporting software that I required only to find
that it won't come close to doing the job I require of it.

If this is an example of the 'quality' of Gentoo then I fear that they
are wasting their time!

[/rant]

On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 15:52, michael at diaspora.gen.nz wrote:
> >drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 48 Jun 1 15:27 win_c
> >drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 48 Jun 1 15:27 win_d
> >drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 48 Jun 1 15:27 win_e
> >
> >after:
> >
> >drwxr--r-- 14 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 win_c
> >drwxr--r-- 40 root root 32768 Jan 1 1970 win_d
> >drwxr--r-- 70 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 win_e
> 
> I've been caught by this one before.  There's a difference between the
> permissions on the directory "/win_c" on the root file system (mounted on
> "/"), and the permissions on the root directory of the VFAT filesystem
> stored on the device "/dev/hda1".
> 
> In your case, the directory "/win_c" on the root file system has the
> permissions:
> 
>     drwxrwxrwx
> 
> And the permissions on the root directory of the file system in question
> (stored on "/dev/hda1") are:
> 
>     drwxr--r--
> 
> What a mount does is effectively completely replace one directory with
> the root directory of another filesystem; so the "before" permissions
> don't matter at all.
> 
> In your case, you're dealing with a VFAT filesystem, which makes things
> more difficult, as it doesn't have native permissions at all; directories
> and files are "meant" to be world writable in the VFAT world.  So you
> can't mount the filesystem, and then do a chmod on the root directory
> to get the effect you want.
> 
> Hrmmm.  That's not a very clear explanation -- hopefully you'll understand
> what I mean :).