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Date:      Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:01:36 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: chown/chmod doesn't work on FAT slices
Message-ID:  <Pine.SC5.4.10.9904191200120.16827-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <19990419002810.D965@marder-1>

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On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Mark Ovens wrote:

> chown(1) and chmod(1) don't appear to work on FAT slices. I've just
> discovered that all the files (and directories) on my FAT slice
> are owned by root/wheel and have 755 permissions.

To the best of my knowledge, this has *always* been the case, since
FAT file-systems have no support for multi-users. NTFS does - maybe you're
confusing the two?

Jonathan Chen
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