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Date:      Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:45:43 EST
From:      Michael Johnson <ahze@slaughter.necro.edu>
To:        Chip <chip@wiegand.org>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: chmod, chown don't work on /floppy
Message-ID:  <20010126064543.B8BC3D58D@slaughter.necro.edu>

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is the disk filesystem msdos? 


On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Chip wrote:
> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:41:07 -0800
> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org>
> Subject: chmod, chown don't work on /floppy
> 
> I would like to be able to write to my floppy disk 
> without going to su. I am the only person using this
> machine (at home), so I don't care about world writable
> permissions. I changed the permissions on /dev/fd0a
> to world-writable, but the system refuses to let me 
> do the same to /floppy and the directories and files
> that already exist on the floppy. And yes, I am trying
> this as root.
> 
> -- 
> Chip Wiegand
> Alternative Operating Systems
> www.wiegand.org
> 
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