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English => aMule Help => Topic started by: jimi on October 09, 2003, 02:51:31 AM

Title: Impossible to set permissions for the file '/mnt/WinXP/.../0
Post by: jimi on October 09, 2003, 02:51:31 AM

Hi Everybody,

This is my first time using aMule, and first of all, thanls for the GREAT PROGRAM, as a Free Software enthusiast and also newbie, I'm very happy to have discovered another Mule :)

My question is very simple, I'm having a problem related to permissions of my temp files which at the moment reside in a Windows FAT32 parition. At every moment a error mesasge " Impossible to set permissions for the file ' /mnt/WinXP/Program Files/Edonkey2000/032.part.MET.BAK'  (error 1: Operation not permitted)  "

Shame on me, I've already seen how to fix that another day, on another forum, but right now I cannot find it... Which settings (and in which file) should I change on mouting my FAT partition and avoid these boring errors.

Thanks a lot for any help!

Title: Re: Impossible to set permissions for the file '/mnt/WinXP/.../0
Post by: BigBob on October 09, 2003, 03:37:12 AM

Hi jimi,


Many users complain about error message about not being able to change file permission when using a FAT32 partition. This is not a bug in aMule, but in the setup of the machine using the FAT partition.
By default the FAT support of Linux does return an error when trying to change the permissions of a file since the FAT filesystem does not implement access rights. But this is a valid operation under every Unix like OS.
To avoid the error messages use the "quiet" flag when mounting a FAT partition. Adding it to the options in /etc/fstab does make this setting persistent, but does not replace umounting and remounting the FAT filesystems right after the change.

Hope this help ...

A++

Title: Re: Impossible to set permissions for the file '/mnt/WinXP/.../0
Post by: deltaHF on October 11, 2003, 08:23:46 PM

something like:

/dev/hda7 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 ,quiet 0 0

mount it new and it w'll work ;)

greets
delta

Title: Hi Thanks!!!
Post by: jimi on October 18, 2003, 12:30:57 AM

Hi Thanks a lot for that...

Setting the 'quiet '  option was the key to solve that problem...

Besides that ... nothing else! The program is running very nice, and I found some 'restart script' on another forum that adapted to aMule they're doing a nice teamwork carrying all that weight (isn't a mule supposed to do that?... :)).

Greetings from Rio!