From: David W. Hodgins on
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:34:31 -0400, Flip Wilson <Rightback(a)cha.com> wrote:

>> /dev/hdf1 /mnt/tertiary vfat umask=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0
>> Yet. Trying to delete a file gives me

What does "ls -ld /mnt/tertiary" show?

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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From: Flip Wilson on
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:42:05 -0400, David W. Hodgins wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:34:31 -0400, Flip Wilson <Rightback(a)cha.com> wrote:
>
>>> /dev/hdf1 /mnt/tertiary vfat umask=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0
>>> Yet. Trying to delete a file gives me
>
> What does "ls -ld /mnt/tertiary" show?
>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins
>

[root(a)mybox]# ls -ld /mnt/tertiary/
drwxrwxrwx 13 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 /mnt/tertiary//
From: David W. Hodgins on
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:13:17 -0400, Flip Wilson <Rightback(a)cha.com> wrote:

> [root(a)mybox]# ls -ld /mnt/tertiary/
> drwxrwxrwx 13 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 /mnt/tertiary//

Strange. For one of my vfat partitions, I have
$ ll -d /var/mnt/hda1
drwxrwxrwx 76 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 /var/mnt/hda1/
With the mount output
/dev/hda1 on /var/mnt/hda1 type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,users,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850)
$ grep /var/mnt/hda1 /etc/mtab
/dev/hda1 /var/mnt/hda1 vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,users,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
$ grep /var/mnt/hda1 /etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 /var/mnt/hda1 vfat defaults,users,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0

I'd try booting from a dos disk, and running scandisk on that file system.
Use http://www.freedos.org/freedos/software/, if you don't have
a bootable dos disk, with scandisk on it.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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