report cards read-only on floppy

Walter Dnes waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org
Tue Nov 28 11:28:41 UTC 2006


On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 09:07:28PM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote

> I can't even change ownership as the super user:

  I assume that if it's a floppy, it's either MSDOS or VFAT.  Neither of
these filesystems have anything vaguely resembling the concept of owner.
You're trying to set a non-existant attribute, and you're getting
nowhere.  Format the floppy as ext2fs, and it would be adifferent story.

  The only way to control what goes on the floppy in this situation is
to fiddle with the ownership and rwx permissions of /dev/fd0.

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