root can't change permissions, owner 2201

comp.os.linux.misc:

Please do not multipost your problems

In that case whoever wtrote the wikipedia article was talking out of the wrong orifice.

In that case, the obvious solution is to compare the fstab entries for the vfat parbreastions on the boxes that work with the equivalent on the box that doesn't work.

Then you complain to the sysadmin

You already know that this is a Mircosoft filesystem. It does not understand permissions. This has already been pointed out to you elsewhere.

FAT32 - or vfat - does not use ownership or permissions, therefore Linux has to buttign the ownership and permissions at mount time. Because they are not real, they cannot be changed while the filesystem is mounted.

No it shouldn't. It allows you to write as the *owner* (i.e. the user that mounted the filesystem - presumably root) but not as anyone else.

Of course not - this has already been explained to you.

FAT32 - or vfat - does not use ownership or permissions, therefore Linux has to buttign the ownership and permissions at mount time. Because they are not real, they cannot be changed while the filesystem is mounted.

root cannot do the impossible even on another parbreastion.

Presumably you mean parbreastions that belong to a real OS rather than the Mickey Mouse FAT32

Precisely

FAT32 - or vfat - does not use ownership or permissions, therefore Linux has to buttign the ownership and permissions at mount time. Because they are not real, they cannot be changed while the filesystem is mounted.

man mount -- Robert HULL

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