From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Earl R. Lapus" Subject: cannot do chmod Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 21:26:11 +0800 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <000501c3251c$b4aca070$8f3b1cac@TIBET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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 /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 ================================= There are seven words in this sentence. =================================