chmod drive partitions

[never]

I have an out of the box wl-500g with a usb hard drive enclosure attached - a 250 gb hardrive partitioned with 3 fat32 partitions at 32 gb each and the rest of the drive ntfs.

Is there a way to change file permissions?

The last partition has been set to "read only" and as it is the largest partition I would like to make better use of it .

I am running firmware version 1.8.1.9 from asus

I'm running win xp

[Styno]

The chmod command can be used to change file permissions
NTFS filesystem is not writable using Linux. Convert it to ext2 or FAT32 if you want to write to it.

[never]

thanks for the help

I have converted to fat32 - partition size is 142 gb isn't this unstable?

I have tried to chmod using ws_ftp ftp client.

I get the message "503 command not understood. chmod failed It may not be supported on remote site"

got the same message when it was ntfs.

[Antiloop]

thanks for the help

I have converted to fat32 - partition size is 142 gb isn't this unstable?

I have tried to chmod using ws_ftp ftp client.

I get the message "503 command not understood. chmod failed It may not be supported on remote site"

got the same message when it was ntfs.

chmod is probably not fully(?) supported by StupidFTPd (name says enough i think)

regarding your harddrive

i'm using 160gb harddrive partitioned as 1 160gb fat32 partition

windows xp will not do this so you have to use alternate partition program (Partition Magic for example)

[Styno]

thanks for the help

I have converted to fat32 - partition size is 142 gb isn't this unstable?

I have tried to chmod using ws_ftp ftp client.

I get the message "503 command not understood. chmod failed It may not be supported on remote site"

got the same message when it was ntfs.

A 142 Gb FAT32 should be no problem for the router. The size is unusual thats all.

Stupid-ftp is a Stupid FTP server. It knows only the most basic FTP commands. Therefore chmod or site commands are not available. The filesystem has nothing to do with the options available in stupid-ftp.

You have to telnet or SSH to your router in order to do a Linux chmod command.

[never]

I though windows struggled with fat32 partitions larger than 32gb that data could become corrupted or lost, thats why I partitioned the 3 smaller fat32 partitions to 32gb originally. And then ntfs for the remainder. and because the asus documentation recommended fat32 primary partitions.

If there is not a problem with large partitions then I will re-partition the drive to 2 large partitions of fat32

I'm not familiar with linux. I struggle enough with windows. but i will see what I can find out about telnet etc. Thanks for your time and help.

[Styno]

Its not Windows thats having problems with > 32Gb partition but old pc hardware. Newer pc hardware does not have problems with partitions <= 160 Gb.

Your linux router will probably have no problems with FAT32 partions of 300 Gb, so there is no need to create lots of small partitions.