From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 22:58: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (pop3.pioneernet.net [208.240.196.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9660237B404 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:57:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from wiegand.org [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.05) id A07B3A1400F6; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:00:11 -0800 Message-ID: <3A71209D.50759E6B@wiegand.org> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:00:45 -0800 From: Chip X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ahze@slaughter.necro.edu Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: chmod, chown don't work on /floppy References: <20010126064543.B8BC3D58D@slaughter.necro.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Johnson wrote: > > is the disk filesystem msdos? Good question, here's the results of fdisk fd0a -> ******* Working on device /dev/fd0a ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=1 heads=1 sectors/track=1 (1 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=1 heads=1 sectors/track=1 (1 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 1,(Primary DOS with 12 bit FAT) start 0, size 2880 (1 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 79/ sector 18/ head 1 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: I don't know what else to do to find out what the filesystem type is. Did I do the right thing or not? -- Chip > 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