Hi all, I am getting a bit confused as to why I cant do something. I have an msdos partition mounted under /mnt/dos I want normal users to be able to read and write the into the /mnt/dos directory. It gets mounted each time the machine boots and that works OK. Just that at present users cant write to it - only read from it.
/etc/fstab says... /dev/hda12 /mnt/dos msdos defaults (note I have alos tried user instead of defaults above) #/ ls -l drwxr-xr-x 3 root users 4096 Nov 16 00:49 mnt /mnt# ls -l drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 dos I wanted to make the dos dir owned by root:users and add myself to the users group so that I could write to the dir. and then to make its permissions drwxrwxr-x so I had permission to write into it. casteret:/mnt# chown root:users dos/ chown: changing ownership of `dos': Operation not permitted casteret:/mnt# I also cant seem to change the permissions of it. casteret:/mnt# ls -l drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 dos casteret:/mnt# chmod ugo+w dos/ casteret:/mnt# ls -l drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 dos If I umount it I can change things like permissions but they revert when I mounty the dos filesystyem over it. I am not undertsanding something here. UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER ======================================================================== This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. ======================================================================== -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
