From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 16: 4:44 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 48E7537B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:04:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout5-0.nyroc.rr.com (mailout5-1.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F71143E42 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:04:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from mail.27in.tv (roc-24-59-179-24.rochester.rr.com [24.59.179.24]) by mailout5-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/RoadRunner 1.20) with SMTP id g9PN4cc11400 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 19:04:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 23721 invoked by uid 0); 25 Oct 2002 23:05:56 -0000 Received: from localhost.lan.27in.tv (HELO 27in.tv) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.lan.27in.tv with SMTP; 25 Oct 2002 23:05:55 -0000 Received: from 10.0.0.254 (SquirrelMail authenticated user cjm2) by www.lan.27in.tv with HTTP; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 19:05:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1076.10.0.0.254.1035587156.squirrel@www.lan.27in.tv> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 19:05:56 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: How to chmod on FAT32 partition? From: "C J Michaels" To: In-Reply-To: <20021025222344.GH32176@thingy.apana.org.au> References: <20021025222344.GH32176@thingy.apana.org.au> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.8) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 Some time in the recent past David Gerard scribbled: > > 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? I know it's documented somewhere but I'm too lazy to look right now. I know for a fact if you search the archives you'll find more detail. The short answer is that FAT32 has no concept of permissions there's not way to 'change them' on a per file/dir basis. When you mount a FAT{32} partition it'll inherrit the permissions of the mount point. So chown/chmod that directory and re-mount. > > - d. > -- Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message