From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 29 15:59:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17785 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:59:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17771 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:59:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from averstak@vt.edu) Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA05373 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:59:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from vt.edu (averstak.campus.vt.edu [198.82.91.57]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA30216 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:59:01 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <363901D4.6AEE12B7@vt.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 19:01:24 -0500 From: Alex Verstak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting permissions on mounted Fat32 References: <3638F958.92C79043@cec.wustl.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Salute! Dante Cannarozzi wrote: > I'm running 3.0 and loving it... How do you do that?!? My only attempt to make love with FreeBSD was typing "make love" at the command prompt. It said: "make: Don't know how to make love. Stop." ;~( > So far Fat32 support has worked > well, but I'm having trouble setting the permissions on the mounted > drive.. I can change the permissions on the mount point (when it's not > mounted) and that will affect the whole drive when it is mounted, but > does anyone know if it's possible to change the permissions on a certain > dir while it's mounted... AFAIK, that's impossible. FAT32 does not support any permissions except r/w. It's not the driver -- it's the structure of FAT32. -- Drive safely! Alex /\ v /\ \/* *\/ ^ http://averstak.home.ml.org/ \___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message