From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 26 16:33:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-56-129.knology.net [24.214.56.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5061137B69D for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:33:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0R0WwG22716; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:32:59 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200101270032.f0R0WwG22716@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Chip Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: chmod, chown don't work on /floppy In-Reply-To: Message from Chip of "Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:41:07 PST." <3A711C03.ABDB3DE3@wiegand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:32:58 -0600 From: David Kelly Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chip writes: > 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. /usr/ports/emulators/mtools/ lets you painlessly deal with MS-DOS floppies. Without being root. Without having to mount the floppy. Put yourself in the "operator" group. And "chmod g+w /dev/fd0.1440" If multiple users are involved then create a "floppy" group and chgroup the device. Then mdir, mcopy, mcd, mformat... The strangest thing is getting used to refering to the floppy as "a:\", its un-natural. What mtools will not let you do is write to the floppy from a process, such as vi. Or at least "its not easy". -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message