From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 20 17:21:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA10483 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 17:21:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from becker2.u.washington.edu (spaz@becker2.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.68]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA10478 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 17:21:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by becker2.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.04/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA28488; Sat, 20 Apr 96 17:21:34 -0700 Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 17:21:31 -0700 (PDT) From: John Utz To: Sean Kelly Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: I cant type!!!Re: /dos permissions? In-Reply-To: <9604202001.AA15378@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 20 Apr 1996, Sean Kelly wrote: > >>>>> "John" == John Utz 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