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From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org>
To: Eric F Crist <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com>
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Subject: Re: DOS partition permissions.
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On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 03:37:51PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> How can I change the write permissions on DOS partitions?  I have tried a 
> chmod 0777 /dev/<device> and chmod 0777 /<mount-point> and neither have any 
> effect.  What am I doing wrong?  I'm trying to do this for a USB storage 

I think you should change permissions on the mount point before
mounting the device, no need to change it on /dev/device.

hth
Gautam