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Date:      14 Mar 2005 14:22:36 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        brianjohn@fusemail.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: permissions on partition?
Message-ID:  <44u0neghhf.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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"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.



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