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From: robdefriesse@mail.com (Rob deFriesse)
To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Permissions on UFS floppy.
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> > I am unable to set the permissions I desire on a diskette with a UFS
> > file system. Specifically, I would like to be able to mount the
> > diskette with group write permission at the mount point.
> > 
> > I prepared the diskette with :
> > 
> > fdformat -f 1440 fd0
> > disklabel -w -r /dev/fd0 fd1440
> > newfs -T fd1440 /dev/fd0
> > 
> > Then I mounted it with:
> > 
> > mount -w -t ufs /dev/fd0a /fd
> > 
> > Before the mount command, the permissions on the "/fd" directory are:
> > 
> > > ll -d /fd
> > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 512 Jan 24 18:33 /fd
> > 
> > After the mount, the permissions are:
> > 
> > > ll -d /fd
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 3 22:45 /fd
> 
> Can't you change permissions of the floppy right now? You should get
> the permissions of the root directory of the floppy's filesystem when
> it is mounted.

That's it!  Thank you.

After the diskette was mounted, I tried:

    chmod g+w /fd

and the permissions were:

    ll -d /fd
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Feb  3 22:45 /fd

but when I do:

    chmod g+w /fd/.

I get the permissions I want:

    ll -d /fd
    drwxrwxr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Feb  3 22:45 /fd

Now I know there's a difference between /fd and /fd/.

Thank you,
Rob.

> -- 
> Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu



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