From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 18 17: 7:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6E5914D7E for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 17:07:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA21285; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:01:36 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:01:36 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chown/chmod doesn't work on FAT slices In-Reply-To: <19990419002810.D965@marder-1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message