Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:13:45 EST From: Michael Johnson <ahze@slaughter.necro.edu> To: Chip <chip@wiegand.org>, ahze@slaughter.necro.edu Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: chmod, chown don't work on /floppy Message-ID: <20010126161345.AD6CED58D@slaughter.necro.edu>
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show me what comes from 'mount' /dev/fd0 on /mnt (ufs, local) <--should look a little bit like that On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Chip wrote: > Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:00:45 -0800 > To: ahze@slaughter.necro.edu > From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> > Subject: Re: chmod, chown don't work on /floppy > > Michael Johnson wrote: > > > > is the disk filesystem msdos? > > Good question, here's the results of fdisk fd0a -> > > ******* Working on device /dev/fd0a ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=1 heads=1 sectors/track=1 (1 blks/cyl) > > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=1 heads=1 sectors/track=1 (1 blks/cyl) > > Media sector size is 512 > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from DOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 1 is: > sysid 1,(Primary DOS with 12 bit FAT) > start 0, size 2880 (1 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0; > end: cyl 79/ sector 18/ head 1 > The data for partition 2 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 3 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 4 is: > <UNUSED> > > I don't know what else to do to find out what the > filesystem type is. > Did I do the right thing or not? > > -- > Chip > > > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Chip wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:41:07 -0800 > > > To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > > > From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> > > > Subject: chmod, chown don't work on /floppy > > > > > > 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
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