Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:00:45 -0800 From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> To: ahze@slaughter.necro.edu Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: chmod, chown don't work on /floppy Message-ID: <3A71209D.50759E6B@wiegand.org> References: <20010126064543.B8BC3D58D@slaughter.necro.edu>
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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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