From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 22:38:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (pop3.pioneernet.net [208.240.196.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD66C37B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:38:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from wiegand.org [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.05) id ABDA30A6012A; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:40:26 -0800 Message-ID: <3A711C03.ABDB3DE3@wiegand.org> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:41:07 -0800 From: Chip X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: chmod, chown don't work on /floppy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would like to be able to write to my floppy disk without going to su. I am the only person using this machine (at home), so I don't care about world writable permissions. I changed the permissions on /dev/fd0a to world-writable, but the system refuses to let me do the same to /floppy and the directories and files that already exist on the floppy. And yes, I am trying this as root. -- Chip Wiegand Alternative Operating Systems www.wiegand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message