Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:34:41 +0000 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: degraz@sbohm.yi.org Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Cannot CHMOD or CHOWN on Fat partition? Message-ID: <20001031143440.B62233@irrelevant.org> In-Reply-To: <MDAEMON10001200010311133.AA3354062@sbohm.yi.org>; from degraz@sbohm.yi.org on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:33:54AM -0500 References: <MDAEMON10001200010311133.AA3354062@sbohm.yi.org>
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:33:54AM -0500, degraz@sbohm.yi.org wrote: > I have a second hard drive in my FreeBSD box, running release 4.1.1. > I have added the drive to /etc/fstab with the following line: > > /dev/ad3s1 /server_root msdos rw 1 1 > > I have also tried 0 0, and 2 2 for the Dump and Pass#. I'll admit I have no real basis for this, other than the fact that the other partitions used 2 2, except root.. > > The partition mounts fine, I can read and write from root, but I absolutely cannot change the file permissions or own of any of the files. I have tried chmod from root, repeated, and get nothing. Is is not possible to change the permissions of a drive > that is FAT/FAT32? No, as FAT doesn't support owners, etc. The way to do it is to chown the mount point (when it's not mounted obviously) then all files under there inherit that owner. -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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