From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 3 18: 4:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFAEB37B401 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 18:04:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a035.otenet.gr [212.205.215.35]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f94147I23754; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 04:04:08 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9413Oq32573; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 04:03:24 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 04:03:23 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Radhika Sambamurti Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chmod as root not working Message-ID: <20011004040323.A32565@hades.hell.gr> References: <20011004005721.90800.qmail@web9302.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011004005721.90800.qmail@web9302.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-URL: http://labs.gr/~charon/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Radhika Sambamurti 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