[Tfug] Bizarre permissions situation...

[Jim March]

Since I'm running 64bit Ubuntu, the only way I could get the "easy
installer" for the latest stable Rockbox was to connect the Sansa to
my XP Virtual Machine and use the MS-Windows installer talking
straight to the Sansa, bypassing Linux completely.  Sucked, but what
can ya do?

It worked.

Jim

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Matthew Patenaude <mnglfiddle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:50 PM, John Gruenenfelder
>> <johng at as.arizona.edu> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:06:38PM -0700, Jim March wrote:
>> >>I intend to run Rockbox on it, but only once I have the permissions
>> >>issues sorted out.
>> >>
>> >>Which still ain't working despite:
>> >>
>> >>/dev/sdb1       /media/disk auto user,noauto,uid=1000   0  0
>> >>
>> >>...in fstab.
>> >>
>> >>I just used gparted to confirm it's /dev/sdb1 and I triple-checked my
>> >> uid.
>> >>
>> >>If anybody can help...I'd really appreciate it.  This blows.
>> >
>> > You can't change the permissions/ownership for any of those files (via
>> > chmod/chown, anyway) on the device because FAT32 does not support
>> > permissions
>> > of any kind.
>> >
>> > Now, without the uid= option, the ownership should be set to whomever
>> > mounts
>> > it.  If root mounts it, then root owns all of the files, and if your
>> > user
>> > mounts it, then he will own all of the files.  The uid= option *should*
>> > fix
>> > all of that, however...  You could try adding gid=1000 as well.
>> >
>> > So, what happens when you mount the device, not as root but as your
>> > user, with
>> > or without the uid= option?  Who owns the files according to ls -l?
>> >  What
>> > permissions do they have?
>>
>> Welll...the truly weird thing now is that if I plug it in and mount it
>> at the command line via sudo, it works "for root only".  If I then
>> pull it and re-mount it, it works in the normal, friendly, auto-detect
>> fashion fully read-write for my regular username.
>>
>> Grrr.
>>
>> I'm going to be reformatting anyways to 32bit instead of 64, too many
>> odd glitches right now.  So it'll probably be OK after that.
>>
>
>
> I think the Rockbox install utility app will install Rockbox without the
> hassle of the other things you're trying to do. You might actually have an
> easier time of it after you install Rockbox, than trying to install it
> after you get the permissions figured out... or am I missing something here?
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