Corrupted filenames in external hard drive

[dimmutal]

Re: Corrupted filenames in external hard drive [SOLVED]

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

[toad]

Re: Corrupted filenames in external hard drive

kubicle - you should make that a sticky (or I should in my head )

I always forget that rights don't work on FAT!!! - and this is the second time that you sorted this out in a week.

[walfred]

Re: Corrupted filenames in external hard drive

I think no need for sticky.
Just remember FAT is Micro$oft stuff, so no way Linux rights would be available on Windoze