Re: chmod on dos partition
Neil Moore (amethyst@valjean.sfhs.floyd.k12.ky.us)
Sun, 16 Feb 1997 12:25:17 -0500
>
> On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, mBird wrote:
>
> | When I do chmod on any files in a dos partition nothing happens -- so
> | chmod 777 /dos1/myfile returns with myfile still in a chmod of 755.
> | Works fine for files in a linux partition. very odd...
>
> ha ha.. dos filesystem doesn't support permisson/ownership.
> You can do that only on ext2 or minix or other Linux native filesystems.
If you want *all* the files on the DOS partition to have mode 777,
add `mode=777' to the mount option column in the /etc/fstab entry.
See `man mount' and `man fstab' for details.
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