Date: 05 Sep 2000 10:47:08 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: READ ONLY slice part II Message-ID: <44hf7u7v6b.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: vedette@iconnect.co.ke's message of "5 Sep 2000 16:29:16 %2B0200" References: <20000905172725.A73078@siafu.iconnect.co.ke>
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vedette@iconnect.co.ke (Odhiambo Washington) writes: > Why is it that when I do make installworld the permission on /var/mail > changes from 1777 to 775??? When I reboot to multi user mode I have to > change it back. Someone must know where this comes from. mtree(8) The specification file, in this case, is /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist > Is this also the same reason I cannot write to my msdos slice even though > it is mounted rw??? Probably not. At a guess, I'd say that's due to user permissions. Remember that there's no user information (or access permissions) in a DOS partition, so the mount command fakes it by using the mountpoint's information. See the man page for mount_msdos(8) for details. > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# > /dev/ad0s2b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/ad0s2a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/ad0s2e /usr ufs rw 2 2 > /dev/ad0s2f /var ufs rw 2 2 > /dev/ad0s1 /win msdos rw 0 0 > /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 > > Just to add....here is the output of /sbin/mount > > /dev/ad0s2a on / (ufs, local, soft-updates, writes: sync 5 async 147, reads: sync 233 async 8) > /dev/ad0s2e on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates, writes: sync 2 async 383, reads: sync 4980 async 50) > /dev/ad0s2f on /var (ufs, local, writes: sync 161 async 328, reads: sync 66 async 14) > /dev/ad0s1 on /win (msdos, local, reads: sync 1 async 0) > procfs on /proc (procfs, local) > > I think there is a big conflict between what is in fstab and this > output... I need to correct this. I don't see any conflict between those; please elaborate if the earlier advice isn't sufficient. Good luck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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