Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:25:57 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: spaz@u.washington.edu (John Utz) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dos permissions? Message-ID: <199604220055.KAA28091@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.92a.960420115511.24334A-100000@becker2.u.washington.edu> from "John Utz" at Apr 20, 96 11:58:04 am
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John Utz stands accused of saying: > > Hello; > > I discovered recently that i cant write to my dos partition > > i then changed the entry in /etc/fstab to rw from ro > > but it still ignores chmod -R a+w /dos run as root. > > what am i doing wrong? Assuming that the FAT filesystem understands permissions. It doesn't. > John Utz spaz@u.washington.edu -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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