report cards read-only on floppy

[Ivan Avery Frey]

Walter Dnes wrote:
> 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.
> 

But Linux does have a way of mounting a MSDOS or VFAT (FAT32) partition in such 
a way that it can "pretend" that each file or directory on such a partitiion has 
a specific set of attributes.

Ivan Avery Frey.
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