From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 7:26:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pmade.org (dsl-att1-118-93.sb.101freeway.net [12.44.118.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AA2B37B4CF for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:26:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (pjones@localhost) by pmade.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA11214; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:26:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pjones@pmade.org) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:26:44 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Jones To: degraz@sbohm.yi.org Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Cannot CHMOD or CHOWN on Fat partition? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The FAT* file system does not support permissions. On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 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? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- ....................................................................... : Peter Jones : Unix Geek - Four Wheeling : : pjones@pmade.org : Code Writing - Jesus Freak : :....................................:................................: :echo er|perl -0160 -pe ';$;=ord$/;s;^;"\U$/".chr($\;-11).chr$\;+4;e;': :.....................................................................: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message