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Re: Corrupted filenames in external hard drive [SOLVED]
Originally posted by kubicle
Originally posted by dimmutal
I re-run the chown command but i still get operation not permitted for all of my files. ARE YOU SURE IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT THIS EXTERNAL DRIVE IS FAT32 FORMATTED?
If it's a fat file system, you can add mount options to your fstab to change permissions or ownership (chmod or chown don't work on fat)
Examples:
you can add 'umask=0000' option to make the drive writable for all users and/or 'uid=1000,gid=1000' to make the default user the owner.
/dev/sdc1 /media/sdc1 auto users,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid,umask=0000 0 0
or
/dev/sdc1 /media/sdc1 auto users,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid,uid=1000,gid=100 0 0 0
You can also try 'utf8' option if you get corrupted characters on filenames
WOW!!! Perfect!!!!!! Thanks Kubicle this worked perfect. SOLVED
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