From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 22 07:08:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA07005 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 07:08:21 -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 HAA06999 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 07:08:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by becker2.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.04/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA04253; Mon, 22 Apr 96 07:08:09 -0700 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 07:08:07 -0700 (PDT) From: John Utz To: Michael Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dos permissions? In-Reply-To: <199604220055.KAA28091@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello Mike; On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > John Utz stands accused of saying: > > > > Hello; > > > > I discovered recently that i cant write to my dos partition > > > > i then changed the entry in /etc/fstab to rw from ro > > but it still ignores chmod -R a+w /dos run as root. > > > > what am i doing wrong? > > Assuming that the FAT filesystem understands permissions. It doesn't. ok, fair enuf, but at one time i was able to read and write to the /dos filesystem ( 2.0.5 and earlier? ) and now i cant. Can *you* write to a /dos filesystem? > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life