>>>>> "P" == P Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
P> #! On Fri, Aug 10, 2001, Bob Koss wrote:
>> Mounting worked. By repeating the command I assume you meant
>> 'chown -R sue /mnt/dosE'. If so, that failed as it traversed
>> the subdirectories of the partition.
>>
P> ? Its meant to get all the subdirectories.
It doesn't, see below.
P> As root do this: Make sure the partition /is/ correctly
P> mounted. Remenber that FAT doesn't have that many security
P> options so if its correctly mounted, this should be easy.
mount -t vfat /dev/hda6 /mnt/dosE
options -w or -o rw don't make any difference.
P> cd /mnt
P> chown sue dosE
P> chown -R sue /mnt/dosE/*
kboom. Operation not permitted. Repeated again and again and again for
each file on that partition.
P> chmod 777 dosE
P> chmod 777 dose/*
Another kboom.
P> Now unless dosE is on another machine which is setting
P> permissions that cannot be overwritten, Sue will be able to
P> read and write to /mnt/dosE.
The mount line shown above shows that it is a fat16 partition on the
local machine.
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