usb0 Fat32 drive owned by root - read only

[rhwaugh]

(14th Dec, 2012 12:55 PM)DraZtiK Wrote:  login via ssh
# sudo chmod 0777 -R /media/usb*
should do it. there are other ways depending on what you are trying to accomplish.

Thanks for the quick reply.

I thought that your fix was working this morning, but it turns out that after only three hours sleep I had forgotten that I had removed the usb flash drive, and so media/usb wasn't mapped to the relevant Fat32 usb drive! [I need to find out where it was mapping to on the SD card so I can remove those test directories!]

So the sudo chmod doesn't work.

I was sudo chmoding and chowning my little heart out yesterday before posting, but to no avail: couldn't change usb0 from drwxr-xr-x root:root. Chown comes back with "Operation not permitted". I get the idea from other posts that the permissions are being ignored because Fat32 isn't set up for linux permissions, and the question of who can read or write to the drive comes down to a question of ownership at the time when the drive is mounted.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks again,

Rachel