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Problems with FAT32 and 1.6.0 (and 1.5.6)

Many users complain about error message about not being able to change file permission when using a FAT32 partition. This is not a bug in xMule, but in the setup of the machine using the FAT partition.
By default the FAT support of Linux does return an error when trying to change the permissions of a file since the FAT filesystem does not implement access rights. But this is a valid operation under every Unix like OS.
To avoid the error messages use the "quiet" flag when mounting a FAT partition. Adding it to the options in /etc/fstab does make this setting persistent, but does not replace umounting and remounting the FAT filesystems right after the change.

Posted by Michael Mueller 2003-08-28

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