From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 3 18:13:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.is.co.za (mercury.is.co.za [196.4.160.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CD3C37B403 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 18:13:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c6-pta-101.dial-up.net (c6-pta-101.dial-up.net [196.26.132.101]) by mercury.is.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id E36AC3ED2; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 03:13:33 +0200 (SAST) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 03:15:53 +0200 (SAST) From: The Psychotic Viper X-X-Sender: To: Radhika Sambamurti Cc: Subject: Re: chmod as root not working In-Reply-To: <20011004005721.90800.qmail@web9302.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20011004031029.W40303-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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