From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 27 18:47:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044CE37B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:47:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com ([216.196.73.168]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:45:21 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0S2lMQ81964; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:47:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:47:16 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Chip Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: chmod, chown don't work on /floppy Message-ID: <20010127184716.P10761@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <3A711C03.ABDB3DE3@wiegand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3A711C03.ABDB3DE3@wiegand.org>; from chip@wiegand.org on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:41:07PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message