Praedor Tempus wrote:
> 
> I have a drive/partition mapped to /mnt/DOS_hdb6, and it is vfat.
> It's purpose is to hold games (windoze games, some of which can
> be played with wine).

> I log in as root or superuser and try to chmod portions of the

chmod changes permissions for the files but these don't exist in vfat
so you get the error.

> permitted" messages.  Excuse me?  As root I can do anything I
> want.  I can wipe any and all drives, partitions, mountpoints
> off the face of the earth.   I can delete the system by running

In your /etc/fstab file change the relevant line to be:

/dev/hdb6 /mnt/DOS_hdb6 vfat user,exec,umask=0,0,0

That should solve your problem.

You'll need to reboot for it to take affect.

Cheers --- Larry

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