[KLUG Members] chmod query

[Phillip Hofmeister]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 at 06:41:59PM -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> I log on as root and try to change the permissions. I get no error
> message when I hit return, but the permissions don't change:
> 
> chmod o+w /mnt/maxtorFAT
> 
> Likewise I can't go in and change permissions on the files.

As someone mentioned later on, you can specify these permissions at
mount time.  I presume you are trying to mount a FAT filesystem (DOS).
FAT and FAT32 do not support the extra bits required to store a UNIX
style permission.

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Phillip Hofmeister