report cards read-only on floppy

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Tue Nov 28 15:21:58 UTC 2006


Chris Aitken wrote:
> Ivan Avery Frey wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> 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 partition has a specific set of attributes.
>
> Why would it be MSDOS or VFAT partition? I created all the files in 
> linux.
>
> I added 'rw' to the floppy line in /etc/fstab and rebooted (I couldn't 
> rember the command to get the system to re-read fstab). Still, the 
> files are read-only. I tried my chmod -R 777 /mnt/floppy/ command 
> again - didn't help. I tried running that same command as the 
> superuser - again I get the read-only filesystem errors:
>
> [root at p733 chris]# chmod -R 777 /mnt/floppy/
> chmod: changing permissions of `/mnt/floppy/': Read-only file system
> chmod: changing permissions of 
> `/mnt/floppy/rpt.0607.jk.aaliyah.1.doc': Read-only file system
> chmod: changing permissions of `/mnt/floppy/rpt.0607.jk.austin.1.doc': 
> Read-only file system
> <snip>

What group is listed for the floppy?


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