Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 17:21:31 -0700 (PDT) From: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> To: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: I cant type!!!Re: /dos permissions? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.92a.960420171742.27496A-100000@becker2.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <9604202001.AA15378@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov>
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On Sat, 20 Apr 1996, Sean Kelly wrote: > >>>>> "John" == John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> writes: > > John> Hello; I discovered recently that i cant write to my dos > John> partition > > John> i then changed the entry in /etc/fstab to rw from ro > > That's probably the reason. rw = read/write. ro = read only. > If you want to write to your DOS primary partition from FreeBSD, you > need to mount the partition as read/write. Put the rw in /etc/fstab. I am an absolute git. I mistyped this. I had changed the /dos from ro to rw not the other way around. I did this and it went from giving me a message "read only filesystem" to simply not letting me move things > But be careful. I heard that FreeBSD's DOS filesystem code isn't > safe. You might corrupt the data in your DOS partition if you write > to it from FreeBSD. oh, great. wonderful. when did this transpire? > -- > Sean Kelly > NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov > Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/ > ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life
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