Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 04:03:23 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: Radhika Sambamurti <radhika_narendran@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chmod as root not working Message-ID: <20011004040323.A32565@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20011004005721.90800.qmail@web9302.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20011004005721.90800.qmail@web9302.mail.yahoo.com>
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Radhika Sambamurti <radhika_narendran@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have mounted my windows 98 partition on /windows. All the > directories in /windows and files have rwxr-xr-x > permissions. As root I tried chmod to 775, but to no avail. > It simply would not do it. The windows filesystem does not support the notion of `permissions'. (Well, to be frank, at least *some* Windows filesystems, like NTFS, do have permissions and access lists, it's just that their mapping to Unix permissions does not make much sense, and the relevant FreeBSD filesystem drivers do not try to do it.) -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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