Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:44:21 -0600 (CST) From: "Brian John" <brianjohn@fusemail.com> To: "Lowell Gilbert" <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: permissions on partition? Message-ID: <3018.209.87.176.4.1110829461.fusewebmail-19592@webmail.fusemail.com>
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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. > __ 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
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