Sharing a Partition Between Windows and Linux Throws Permission Errors
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I created a new partition in Windows 10 formatted as Fat32, so that I could work with files located in one place despite being logged into my MX Linux installation or Windows 10.
While logged into Windows 10, I can move files in and out of the partition no problem.
While logged into MX Linux, the drive wasn't mounted, so I modified /etc/fstab by adding this line:
UUID=3F02-4BFD /mnt/sda4 vfat defaults 0 2
Then I rebooted, only to find I couldn't mkdir inside /mnt/sda4. So I looked up the permissions and found that every owner and group was root.
So I logged into root and attempted to run:
chown foo:users sda4/
and got the error:
chown: changing ownership of 'sda4/': Operation not permitted
Note that I got with this sudo and while actually logged in as the root user.
I did some research and apparently there might be some immutability properties so I ran:
lsattr sda4/
And got this on all of the directories:
lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on sda4/foo
Currently stuck at this point.
Asked by so1120
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Jul 16, 2020, 01:39 PM
Last activity: Jul 16, 2020, 05:41 PM
Last activity: Jul 16, 2020, 05:41 PM