Jenny Hopkins wrote:

Morning, Does anyone know if I can do anything about my mini usbdrive and permissions? Because I have to mount it vfat, any linux files I copy to and from end up with ownership and permissions completely screwed. It's an Iomega somethingorother and I mount it thusly: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive -t vfat

You could mount it as umsdos rather than vfat. From the kernel documentation: "Umsdos is not a file system per se, but a twist to make a boring one into a useful one. It gives you: long file names Permissions and owners Links Special files (devices, pipes...) All that is needed to be a linux root fs." The first time you mount the usb device you'll have to run umssync /mnt/usbdrive to create the magic --linux-.--- files which actually store the owner/group and permission stuff but after that if you mount the drive as umsdos then everything should just look unixy from then on. JD