From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 10 6:15: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.x-treme.gr (mail2.x-treme.gr [212.120.196.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 152E637B773 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 06:14:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat60.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.252]) by mail2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with SMTP id QAA03829 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 16:14:15 +0300 Received: (qmail 16068 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Apr 2000 11:51:58 -0000 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:51:58 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Mark Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: chmod question Message-ID: <20000410145157.B14518@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <000001bfa0e5$d30c0b00$0300000a@cmr.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <000001bfa0e5$d30c0b00$0300000a@cmr.net>; from mark@dsl-gw2-dhcp-a78.clsp.uswest.net on Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 05:05:53PM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 05:05:53PM -0600, Mark wrote: >... > > This directory is /dos which is the mount point for my physical disk > 2. This disk is a fat32 drive. The fstab entry is > > /dev/ad1s1 /dos msdos rw 2 2 > > Why can't I change permissions? I thought root could? You can not change `permissions' of files on an MSDOS filesystem, because the MSDOS filesystem does not support the notion of `file owner' or `permissions'. If you want to make all the files under /dos look as if they're owned by a certain user, look at the options `-u UID', `-g GID' and `-m MASK' in the manpage of mount_msdos. - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message