Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 03:15:53 +0200 (SAST) From: The Psychotic Viper <psyv@sec-it.net> To: Radhika Sambamurti <radhika_narendran@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: chmod as root not working Message-ID: <20011004031029.W40303-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20011004005721.90800.qmail@web9302.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi, On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, 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. I am running the csh as root. I > also commented out the umask (022), in the .cshrc file, but > it still would not modify permissions on any of the > directories under /windows. Thats because windows and their filesystems (fat or ntfs) dont support unix type permission structures.You wont be able to change file permissions throught the "conventional" manner using chmod. > Any idea as to how I can overcome this problem or why it is > happening? Reason why I stated above and cant be worked around other than changing permissions on your /windows directory itself. HTH PsyV To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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