[wellylug] Need some help with Gentoo

[Donald Gordon]

On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 15:52:10 +1200
michael at diaspora.gen.nz wrote:

> 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.

But you can pass options to mount to tell it that userid donald and
groupid donald should own all the files, directories with mode 0755 and
files with mode 0644...

donald