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From: Michael Johnson <ahze@slaughter.necro.edu>
To: Chip <chip@wiegand.org>, ahze@slaughter.necro.edu
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Subject: Re: chmod, chown don't work on /floppy
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show me what comes from 'mount'

/dev/fd0 on /mnt (ufs, local)     <--should look a little bit like that

 



On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Chip wrote:
> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:00:45 -0800
> To: ahze@slaughter.necro.edu
> From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org>
> Subject: Re: chmod, chown don't work on /floppy
> 
> Michael Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > is the disk filesystem msdos?
> 
> Good question, here's the results of fdisk fd0a ->
> 
>  ******* Working on device /dev/fd0a *******
>  parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
>  cylinders=1 heads=1 sectors/track=1 (1 blks/cyl)
>  
>  parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
>  cylinders=1 heads=1 sectors/track=1 (1 blks/cyl)
>  
>  Media sector size is 512
>  Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
>  Information from DOS bootblock is:
>  The data for partition 1 is:
>  sysid 1,(Primary DOS with 12 bit FAT)
>      start 0, size 2880 (1 Meg), flag 80 (active)
>  	beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0;
>  	end: cyl 79/ sector 18/ head 1
>  The data for partition 2 is:
>  <UNUSED>
>  The data for partition 3 is:
>  <UNUSED>
>  The data for partition 4 is:
>  <UNUSED>
> 
> I don't know what else to do to find out what the
> filesystem type is. 
> Did I do the right thing or not?
> 
> -- 
> Chip
> 
>  
> > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Chip wrote:
> > > Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:41:07 -0800
> > > To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > > From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org>
> > > Subject: chmod, chown don't work on /floppy
> > >
> > > I would like to be able to write to my floppy disk
> > > without going to su. I am the only person using this
> > > machine (at home), so I don't care about world writable
> > > permissions. I changed the permissions on /dev/fd0a
> > > to world-writable, but the system refuses to let me
> > > do the same to /floppy and the directories and files
> > > that already exist on the floppy. And yes, I am trying
> > > this as root.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Chip Wiegand
> > > Alternative Operating Systems
> > > www.wiegand.org
> 


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