From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 11 16:48: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from carbon.btinternet.com (carbon.btinternet.com [194.73.73.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F1D37BA10 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:47:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [195.99.44.241] (helo=parish.my.domain) by protactinium with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12f8Rc-0005AV-00; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:43:36 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA01903; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:43:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:43:45 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Mark , Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: chmod question Message-ID: <20000411224345.D235@parish> References: <000001bfa0e5$d30c0b00$0300000a@cmr.net> <20000410145157.B14518@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000410145157.B14518@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr on Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:51:58PM +0300 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:51:58PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 05:05:53PM -0600, Mark wrote: > >... > > > > This directory is /dos which is the mount point for my physical disk > > 2. This disk is a fat32 drive. The fstab entry is > > > > /dev/ad1s1 /dos msdos rw 2 2 > > > > Why can't I change permissions? I thought root could? > > You can not change `permissions' of files on an MSDOS filesystem, > because the MSDOS filesystem does not support the notion of `file owner' > or `permissions'. > > If you want to make all the files under /dos look as if they're owned by > a certain user, look at the options `-u UID', `-g GID' and `-m MASK' in > the manpage of mount_msdos. Or just ch{mod,own} the mountpoint directory. > > - Giorgos Keramidas > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message