Submitted 21-Oct-00 by Praedor Tempus: > I log in as root or superuser and try to chmod portions of the > drive as writeable to all, but I keep getting "operation not > permitted" messages. Excuse me? As root I can do anything I > want. You can't change permissions on individual files/directories on a file system that doesn't support permissions. There's no place to store the information. > messages but I am not permitted to change one lousy mount, or > portions thereof, to be world-writeable? You need to mount it with appropriate permissions. Specifically a umask. What I did on a dual boot machine was added all users I wanted to have write access to the partition to a new group called "fatusers" (group number 527 here) then editted the /etc/fstab entry for the partition to include gid=527,umask=007. What this does is gives full read/write privileges to root and members of that group, and nobody else can even cd into the mount point. > What do I have to do AS ROOT to do this? I cannot do "chmod 777" > on it, let alone ANY other variation of chmod on /mnt/DOS_hdb6 > OR any subdirectory on it. Why not? See above. -- Anton Graham GPG ID: 0x18F78541 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RSA key available upon request "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro..." -- Hunter S. Thompson
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