From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 15:32:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C19C37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:32:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from casper.sri.com (casper.SRI.COM [128.18.243.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F347543E42 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:32:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hogsett@csl.sri.com) Received: (qmail 3980 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2002 22:36:43 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO casper.SRI.COM) (127.0.0.1) by casper.sri.com with SMTP; 25 Oct 2002 22:36:43 -0000 Received: from quarter.csl.sri.com ([130.107.1.30]) by casper.SRI.COM (NAVGW 2.5.2.17) with SMTP id M2002102515364224649 ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:36:42 -0700 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (axp.csl.sri.com [130.107.2.30]) by quarter.csl.sri.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g9PMWrnr015135; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:32:53 -0700 Received: from axp.csl.sri.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by axp.csl.sri.com (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9PMWq1J082094; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:32:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hogsett@axp.csl.sri.com) Message-Id: <200210252232.g9PMWq1J082094@axp.csl.sri.com> To: David Gerard Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to chmod on FAT32 partition? In-Reply-To: Message from David Gerard of "Sat, 26 Oct 2002 08:23:44 +1000." <20021025222344.GH32176@thingy.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 8.8 (Time Passed Me By)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:32:52 -0700 From: Mike Hogsett Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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