What do you have in /etc/fstab?  I have all the Windoze partitions
mounted
with "mode=0777" explicitly in the fstab entries ... I vaguely recall
that
until I did that, I couldn't write to them, even after a chmod, even as
root.
This was not in dosemu, just in Linux in general. Give it a try.

Jim Hartley
OOOPS! that was "mode=0777", NOT mod=...

"John J. Boyer" wrote:

> Christof,
> I can read files and run programs in hda1 in dosemu, but I can't write
> files or delete them. Hda1 is mounted to /win, which is owned by root. If
> I type chmod 1777 /win, even as root I am told that changing permissions
> is not permitted. If I remove /win and then recreate it with mkdir -m 1777
> /win it has permissions drwxrwxrwt (hope I remembered that correctly), but
> when I run dosemu I still can't write to hda1. I tried rebooting, but
> after logging in again I found that the permissions were again lrwxr-xr-x.
> Soi root isn't omnipotent.
> Where do we go from here?
> John
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