From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 18:00:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA27168 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 18:00:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA27161 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 18:00:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA28091; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:25:57 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604220055.KAA28091@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: /dos permissions? To: spaz@u.washington.edu (John Utz) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:25:57 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John Utz" at Apr 20, 96 11:58:04 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Utz stands accused of saying: > > Hello; > > I discovered recently that i cant write to my dos partition > > i then changed the entry in /etc/fstab to rw from ro > > but it still ignores chmod -R a+w /dos run as root. > > what am i doing wrong? Assuming that the FAT filesystem understands permissions. It doesn't. > John Utz spaz@u.washington.edu -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[