From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 5 20:56:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 064C137B8BF for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 20:56:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA5FF2 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 05:56:28 +0200 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 1781; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:59:54 +1000 Message-ID: <38EC0AFD.EDCCD56D@S1.com> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 03:56:45 +0000 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: big-sky@altavista.net Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: mount /chmod question References: <38EC0979.D397908@dsl-gw2-dhcp-a93.clsp.uswest.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG G'day Mark, > I added the ad1s1 line. Not sure if this was the correct dev, >but it > lets me see that drive. Iam unable to write to this drive as a >normal > user. > > ls -dl /dos > drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16384 Dec 31 1979 dos > I 'got around' this on my workstation by chown'ing the directory to myself. I figure 'root' will always have the priv's to write to it, the Fat32 partition I'm using has my stuff on it anyway, so by setting the dir to be owned by myself, all the files underneath automagically became 'mine' as well :') It may not be the most elegant solution (I think ACLs would be ;'), but it works for me. hth, H To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message