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On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:48:41 +0100, james kilty wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 15:34 +0100, Grant Sewell wrote: > >> I'm going out on a limb here... it's a FAT32 formatted USB harddrive. >> Since FAT32 doesn't actually support the idea of ownership or > permissions, >> they are faked when the device is mounted. The entries in your >> "/etc/fstab" file should control what permissions are faked. >> >> In order to delete files, the person trying to delete the file needs to >> have RWX permissions on it. You've said the file's ownership is "root - >> root", and the permissions are RWX for the owner, R-X for the group and > R-X >> for everyone else. >> >> You'd either need to change the permissions in your fstab, or remove the >> file as root. >> >> >From a command line (Konsole, perhaps?) you could run your application >> (Konqueror, perhaps?) as root: >> $ sudo konqueror > Indeed. I had a block on thinking command line is command line only - of > course I have many a time done sudo .... It worked fine thanks. > > Of course I mounted the device as root so that's presumably why owner > was root! > > James Since it's a USB drive, it'll most likely be handled by udev rather than the fstab, but you can always rectify this. :D If it's a device that you'll want to use lots, then it may be worth adding an entry in your fstab for it, that way you can control the permissions easily... Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html