Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:30:33 -0300 From: Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz> To: brianjohn@fusemail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: permissions on partition? Message-ID: <20050314173033.6c7780a2@ale.varnet.bsd> In-Reply-To: <3018.209.87.176.4.1110829461.fusewebmail-19592@webmail.fusemail.com> References: <3018.209.87.176.4.1110829461.fusewebmail-19592@webmail.fusemail.com>
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:44:21 -0600 (CST) "Brian John" <brianjohn@fusemail.com> wrote: > > "Brian John" <brianjohn@fusemail.com> writes: > > > > > Hello, I have a FAT partition on ad0s3 that I am sharing with > > > Windows. For one reason or another everything on this partition is > > > owned by root:wheel. I can't change the permissions to any files > > > on this partition. This is what I have in devfs.conf: > > > own ad0s3 brian:operator > > > perm ad0s3 0660 > > > > > > Is this correct? How can I make it so that files on this > > > partition are owned by the 'brian' user? > > > > There are several approaches described in the manual for > > mount_msdosfs(8). > > > > Changing the permissions on the mount point would probably be the > > easiest.__ > When I try to change the permissions on the mount point this is what > happens:# chown brian:operator /shared > chown: /shared: Invalid argument > > This is the same thing that happens when I try to change permissions > on any files on the partition. Am I doing something wrong? > > Thanks > > /Brian > Hello, Have you tried changing the permissions of the directory when the MS-DOS filesystem is not mounted, and after that mount it? Best Regards, Ale
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