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  1. #1
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    Angry Firefox & vfat partition woes

    I'm trying to get a video download plugin for Firefox (Ant Video) to write into a vfat partition where there's more space. I keep getting the message "You can not read or write files in this folder."

    Initially, the permissions for the folder were weird. I followed the instructions here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=526903

    And edited /etc/fstab to this:
    Code:
    # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
    #
    # Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
    # for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
    # devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
    #
    # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
    proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
    # / was on /dev/sda6 during installation
    UUID=b1e6a62a-ffba-4a34-a7dd-9b3cfa169095 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
    # /intldata was on /dev/sda7 during installation
    #UUID=38CC-D54A  /intldata       vfat    utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
    UUID=38CC-D54A  /intldata       vfat    utf8,umask=007,gid=1000,uid=1000 0 1
    # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
    UUID=f5cc3678-13aa-4d1f-8371-087147891455 none            swap    sw              0       0
    The bold line is the one I changed; the commented-out one above is what was there before.

    This has changed owner and group :

    Code:
    ls -lh | less
    ...
    drwxrwx---  16 onebir onebir  32K 1970-01-01 02:00 intldata
    ...
    Since I'm logging in as onebir, I thought that would allow Firefox to access the folder. But apparently not... What have I missed?

  2. #2
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    Re: Firefox & vfat partition woes

    You should look into AppArmor profile. It is probably preventing Firefox from saving on the partition.

    On a side note, check this thread about Ant Video.

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