From: "Jim C. Brown" <jbrown1050@hotpop.com>
To: "Earl R. Lapus" <elapus@ntsp.nec.co.jp>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cannot do chmod
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 21:42:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030529014201.GA20484@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000501c3251c$b4aca070$8f3b1cac@TIBET>
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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2003-05-28 13:26 cannot do chmod Earl R. Lapus
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2003-05-29 1:35 Andrew Lister
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