From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 6:34:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bumper.jellybaby.net (bumper.jellybaby.net [194.159.247.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC78737B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 06:34:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from simond@localhost) by bumper.jellybaby.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id OAA68856; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:34:41 GMT (envelope-from simond) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:34:41 +0000 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: degraz@sbohm.yi.org Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Cannot CHMOD or CHOWN on Fat partition? Message-ID: <20001031143440.B62233@irrelevant.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from degraz@sbohm.yi.org on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:33:54AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:33:54AM -0500, degraz@sbohm.yi.org wrote: > I have a second hard drive in my FreeBSD box, running release 4.1.1. > I have added the drive to /etc/fstab with the following line: > > /dev/ad3s1 /server_root msdos rw 1 1 > > I have also tried 0 0, and 2 2 for the Dump and Pass#. I'll admit I have no real basis for this, other than the fact that the other partitions used 2 2, except root.. > > The partition mounts fine, I can read and write from root, but I absolutely cannot change the file permissions or own of any of the files. I have tried chmod from root, repeated, and get nothing. Is is not possible to change the permissions of a drive > that is FAT/FAT32? No, as FAT doesn't support owners, etc. The way to do it is to chown the mount point (when it's not mounted obviously) then all files under there inherit that owner. -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message