From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jim C. Brown" Subject: Re: cannot do chmod Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 21:42:02 -0400 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030529014201.GA20484@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> References: <000501c3251c$b4aca070$8f3b1cac@TIBET> Reply-To: jbrown105@speedymail.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000501c3251c$b4aca070$8f3b1cac@TIBET> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Earl R. Lapus" Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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 > > > ================================= > There are seven words in this sentence. > ================================= > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- /"\ ASCII ribbon | http://www.geocities.com/jbrown1050/ \ / campain against | Linux User:190064 X HTML in e-mail and | Linux Machine:84163 /*\ news, and unneeded MIME | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You too can spend five years in prison; just distribute this program once US Senator Hollings's CBDTPA bill is passed into law: perl -e 'while(<>) { print;}'