report cards read-only on floppy

Chris Aitken caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org
Tue Nov 28 14:51:23 UTC 2006


Walter Dnes wrote:

>On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 09:07:28PM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote
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>>I can't even change ownership as the super user:
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>  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.  
>
I see. But then I wonder why the files are only opening read-only...

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