Re: cannot do chmod

["Jim C. Brown" <jbrown1050@hotpop.com>]

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 09:26:11PM +0800, Earl R. Lapus wrote:
> Good day...
> 
> I need help on this... I mounted my windows partition on
> the /mnt/win directory. The strange thing is that there is
> no execute permission for the group and others category 
> on the /mnt/win directory. So I tried to `chmod -v go+x /mnt/win'
> and it printed out that the chmod was successful. BUT when
> I do an `ls -l /mnt' the file permissions were unchanged. This is the first
> time I encountered this problem and I really have no idea why
> this is happening.
> 
> The reason why I want to place an execute permission on the /mnt/win
> directory is that I want other non-root users to access the windows 
> partition. 
> 
> Does this have to do with the mount options? If it does, I placed the
> contents of my fstab below in case you guys want to find anything wrong
> with it. I don't know anything else that might cause this problem. 
> 
> [these are the contents of my fstab]
> 
> /dev/hda5        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
> /dev/hda7        /                ext3        defaults         1   1
> /dev/hda6        /home            ext3        defaults         1   2
> /dev/hda3        /mnt/win         vfat        defaults         1   0

Try this line out:

/dev/hda3     /mnt/win      vfat     defaults,umask=000,mode=777  1  0

Set 'mode=' to whatever permissions you want the files to be.

> /dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       iso9660     noauto,owner,ro  0   0
> /dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner     0   0
> devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
> proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0
> 
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