Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Matt Hyclak wrote: >> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 04:37:58PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz enlightened >> us: >> >>> I just got a 8Gb flash drive and went to copy a bunch of files onto >>> it. I wanted to perserve everything, so I just took my archiving >>> rsync command and altered it to go to localhost:/media/RALLY2/ (name >>> of flash drive). I am getting errors with changing the group owner. >>> Huh? >>> >>> So I try to just use mkdir to create a directory on the flash drive. >>> The directory has a group of root ??? >>> >>> So I try a chgrp and get: >>> >>> [root at mine me]# chgrp me /media/RALLY2/Stuff >>> chgrp: changing group of `/media/RALLY2/Stuff': Operation not permitted >>> >>> >>> OK why can't I set the group to something other than root? >>> >>> ls -lstr /media/ >>> total 4 >>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 me root 4096 May 30 16:28 RALLY2 >>> >>> and of course for /media: >>> >>> 8 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 30 16:18 media >>> >>> >> >> Most likely the device is formatted as FAT32, which has no concept of >> permissions. >> >> Reformat it, ignore the errors, or modify your rsync command to not >> preserve >> uid/gid. > Unfortunately, I have to use it on Win systems as well... You can't expect it to maintain ext3 file permissions in a FAT32 partition :D you could use tar, but then the files are not available without untaring. you MIGHT be able to also use acl permissions and getfacl/setfacl to build a permissions file which you can use to reset the permissions and still have the files available as normal files on the flash drive. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080531/674cb39f/attachment-0005.sig>