"Cannot chmod target file"

[Martin Bialasinski]

Jason Skomorowski <jason at wrong.button.com> wrote:

Hi,

> Except yesterday I was trying to copy some files to a FAT partition
> with it.  It didn't work very well.  It complained that it could not
> chmod the target file.

mount the fat partition with the quiet option.

man mount
/quiet

       quiet  Turn on the quiet flag.  Attempts to chown or chmod
              files do not return errors, although they fail. Use
              with caution!

Ciao,
        Martin