On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 02:33, Pete Nesbitt wrote: > On November 17, 2003 01:32 pm, Roger Beever wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 19:58, Rodrigo Nascimento wrote: > > > You only need to create the mount point /win... > > > > Well not quite. > > I ended up deleting the partition and remaking it, I only had a test > > file from the windoze side any way, using the instructions fro one of > > the RH documents. > > I'm now in a situation were I have the partition mounted but can only > > write to it as root. I can open the file in openoffice > > Chmod keeps telling me the operation is not permitted. > > So how do I change the directory so anyone can read and write to it. > > Roger > > Hi Roger, > What full chmod command are you using that fails and what is the exact error > message? > What does a "ls -l /" report for /win ? > > if it is still /win and you want it so anyone can read/write then, as root, > "cd /;chmod 777 /win" > > -- > Pete Nesbitt, rhce As requested. roger@roger2 roger]$ su Password: [root@roger2 roger]# mount /dev/hdb3 /win [root@roger2 roger]# cd /;chmod 777 /win chmod: changing permissions of `/win' (requested: 0777, actual: 0755): Operation not permitted [root@roger2 /]# root@roger2 win]# ls -l total 16 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 18 01:13 recycled drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 18 01:13 System Volume Informatio n drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 17 21:19 test -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 68 Nov 18 01:21 test2.txt See other post re vfat question -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
