From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 22:46: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from slaughter.necro.edu (24-216-177-167.hsacorp.net [24.216.177.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28C1B37B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:45:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from slaughter.necro.edu (slaughter.necro.edu [192.168.0.1]) by slaughter.necro.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8BC3D58D; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:45:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:45:43 EST From: Michael Johnson To: Chip , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: chmod, chown don't work on /floppy Reply-To: ahze@slaughter.necro.edu X-Mailer: Spruce 0.6.5 for X11 w/smtpio 0.7.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20010126064543.B8BC3D58D@slaughter.necro.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" > From: Chip > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message