Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:32:52 -0700 From: Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com> To: David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to chmod on FAT32 partition? Message-ID: <200210252232.g9PMWq1J082094@axp.csl.sri.com> In-Reply-To: Message from David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> of "Sat, 26 Oct 2002 08:23:44 %2B1000." <20021025222344.GH32176@thingy.apana.org.au>
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Since FAT32 has no concept of users and only a rudimetary concept of file meta-data (permission bits, etc) all files will be owned by the owner of the directory on which it is mounted. You can make the entire filesystem contents own by one particular user and/or group. Read mount_msdos(8) HTH, - Mike Hogsett > > OK, got disk up. (Problem was I didn't know its make. ad3s1 eventually > worked.) > > Now it seems I can't make it writable by anyone but root: > > diva# ls -l viv.html > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1987 Jul 4 05:21 viv.html > diva# chmod g+w viv.html > diva# ls -l viv.html > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1987 Jul 4 05:21 viv.html > diva# chmod a+w viv.html > diva# ls -l viv.html > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1987 Jul 4 05:21 viv.html > > Same for any files. Is this some sort of FAT32 limitation? Is this > documented anywhere? > > > - d. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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