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chmod issues
I am having issues with chmod.
My Linux install is on an ext4 filesystem. I also have a fat32 filesystem on the same disk. The fat32 filesystem is called "ARES".
I have the fat32 filesystem mounted, and I want to change the permissions of some of the files/directories on it. So I navigate to the directory where I want to be:
From there I have a subdirectory called web with a single file index.html in it. I run the following command:
index.html gets its file permissions changed correctly, but nothing happens to the web directory itself. I've even tried sudoing....and nothing...
Is it something to do with the fact that it's a mounted fat32 filesystem? Why won't it let me change the permissions of the directory?
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Try the same thing on your ext3 file system.
> $ chmod -R 755 web
FAT32's idea of permissions is little more than "who's holding the keyboard". The group and world permissions are meaningless.
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Indeed it does work for both directories and files on my primary ext4 filesystem.
I still find it strange that it works for files but not directories on the fat32 filesystem...weird...
Anyways, I guess this means I'll have to change filesystems on that volume...lucky for me I just partitioned it yesterday, and there's only like 4 files on the whole thing, so it won't be a mess to do.