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Subject:	Re: [BUG] 'chmod' broken on FAT32 drive with Cygwin 1.5.19
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On Feb  3 08:42, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
> 'chmod' does not work on FAT32 drive under Cygwin 1.5.19

That's not a bug, it's a "feature" of FAT32.  FAT and FAT32 have no way
to keep security information.  Convert your filesystem to NTFS if you
want that.

And, just in case somebody mentiones the 'ntea' option:  FAT32 has
no support for extended attributes.


Corinna

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