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Date:      Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:47:16 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To:        Chip <chip@wiegand.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: chmod, chown don't work on /floppy
Message-ID:  <20010127184716.P10761@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex>
In-Reply-To: <3A711C03.ABDB3DE3@wiegand.org>; from chip@wiegand.org on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:41:07PM -0800
References:  <3A711C03.ABDB3DE3@wiegand.org>

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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:41:07PM -0800, Chip wrote:
> 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.

FAT systems have no permissions and no users. Change the permissions
and owner of the mountpoint. See mount_msdos(8).
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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