flash drive & permissions

[bart11]

I installed Ubuntu 10.10 to a flash drive. I did not use the startup disk creator i did a normal installation.

I created a fat 32 partition at the beginning of the flash drive so I would have some storage space when inserted on a windows box.

everything seems to be working ok but I can not change permissions on the files located on the fat 32 partition. for example if I type “sudo nautilus” and then go to properties if i check the make executable option it will not stay ticked.

can some one give me some ideas?

[ottosykora]

well nothing in a fat32 partition has any rights or any similar properties, there is simply nothing such there, so any rights will not be stored or changed etc.

[bart11]

I think my problem lies in the mtab or fstab file.

here is the line in mtab.

/dev/sdb1 /media/2AE1-B021 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,s hortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush 0 0

[bart11]

I started playing around with pysdm and some how the executable property is set.

anyway my issue has been resolved and my bash scripts can be ran from the fat partition.