[LI] chmod in a vfat mounted part

[Hariprasad M P <m_hariprasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi friends,

As is common i also have a linux + win box.
Because of space crunch in linux i explored the possibility of using my win partition as another directory in my home
the /etc/fstab entry is:
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/dev/hda6               /home/hari/honwin       msdos   rw,umask=022,async,exec,nodev,uid=500,gid=500,user
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a sample entry of the /dev/hda6 after mounting is 
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-rw-r--r--   1 hari     hari        17650 Feb 18  1992 tasm2msg.c
drwxr-xr-x   2 hari     hari        32768 Dec  8 17:45 tcalc 
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umask gives me an output of 002 at shell promt.

the drive is mounted and it is in read write mode - no problem. But when i am trying to change the ownership
of any of the files chmod does not give me an error. But does not in acutality do it also.
i also tried the option of mounting as vfat, but in vain.

could someone tell me:
1) why is it not giving an error when it is not actually able to do it?
2) how to mount it such that i can do chmod on the files?

thanks in adv.
hari
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