"Harig, Mark A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:BADF3C947A1BD54FBA75C70C241B0B9E10AB02@;ex02.idirect.net... > 1. Double-click on your 'My Computer' icon on your desktop to open it. > > 2. Right-click on your drive(s) icon and select 'Properties' from the > menu. > The Local Disk Properties dialog should be displayed. > > 3. Click on the 'General' tab (the default) if it is not already > selected.
Thanks. > The file system type should be listed as NTFS or FAT32 (or, possibly, > FAT). My system is FAT32. > > If your disk's file system is not NTFS, then you might want to > consider converting it to NTFS using Windows 'convert' utility program > (read Windows Help for more information about this utility). > > From http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html, we have: > > (no)ntsec - if set, use the NT security model to set UNIX-like > permissions on files and processes. The file permissions can only be set > on NTFS partitions. FAT doesn't support the NT file security. > > So, without NTFS, 'chmod' won't work. > [snip] ================== Alex Vinokur mailto:alexvn@;go.to http://go.to/alexvn ================== -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
