From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 24 05:09:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E22437B401 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 05:09:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cobalt.4gl.com (cobalt.4gl.com [66.212.110.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB5743FB1 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 05:09:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ttyson@championelevators.com) Received: from 201 (node-97-98.4gl.com [66.212.97.98] (may be forged)) by cobalt.4gl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA08861; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 07:26:37 -0500 From: "Terry Tyson" To: "marlon corleone" , Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 07:08:42 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20030424030032.10824.qmail@web21202.mail.yahoo.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Subject: RE: cant write on my msdos partition :/ X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:09:34 -0000 Marlon, I just went through this myself. You must also have rights to the devise itself. 1) chgrp ? /dev/ad0s1 where "?" is the group you want to have access. 2) chmod ### /dev/ad0s1 where ### is the permission values you want. See the handbook for details. If you have any other questions, please let me know. Terry > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of marlon corleone > Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 10:01 PM > To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org > Subject: cant write on my msdos partition :/ > > > hi all. i have a msdos windows 98 2nd partition, when > im about to save a file to that particular partition, > i received this message: > > The file could not be save please check if you have a > write permission. > > though i set rw in the fstab options, still i cant > able to write in msdos partition, i tried remounting > it by: mount -o rw -t msdos /dev/ad0s1 /win98 > > after that i try to write a file in the 2nd partition > but it wont write, hope anyone had a tip to fix this. > thanks > > this is my fstab file: > > > # Device Mountpoint FStype > Options Dump Pass# > /dev/ad0s2b none swap sw > 0 0 > /dev/ad0s2a / ufs rw > 1 1 > /dev/ad0s2f /tmp ufs rw > 2 2 > /dev/ad0s2g /usr ufs rw > 2 2 > /dev/ad0s2e /var ufs rw > 2 2 > /dev/ad0s1 /win98 msdos rw > 0 0 > /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 > ro,noauto 0 0 > /dev/acd1c /cdrom1 cd9660 > rw,noauto 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos > rw,noauto 1 1 > proc /proc procfs rw > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo > http://search.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >