[ale] Permission hell question

[ups at tree.com (Stephan Uphoff)]

> when the zip platter is mounted via the "mount /mnt/zip" command
> listed above, the "mount" command returns this line (among others):
> 
> /dev/hdd4 on /mnt/zip type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev)

Well .. Chris Coleman asked the right question:
> Was the zip drive formatted with a linux filesystem?

The answer is no - you using vfat.

Since vfat format does not support owner/group information
this is faked by the file system implementation.
The two ways to mount the fs (mount,gui) cause the fs to be mounted
with different parameters ( gid=users,uid=nobody,...) to fake
the values.


	Stephan