Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 07:08:07 -0700 (PDT) From: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dos permissions? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.92a.960422070318.4205A-100000@becker2.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199604220055.KAA28091@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Hello Mike; On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > 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. ok, fair enuf, but at one time i was able to read and write to the /dos filesystem ( 2.0.5 and earlier? ) and now i cant. Can *you* write to a /dos filesystem? > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life
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