Am Mi, den 24.12.2003 schrieb Dennis Calhoun um 23:09: > Yup, it seems very odd to me and I've found no way around it, but when > I try to use *any* means of changing the permissions on certain > things, root is denied the ability to do so. I want to make a slave > drive, that I've properly mounted, open for writing to it under my > regular username instead of having to log out completely and log back > in as root. So far I cannot find a way for root to be able to change > this. > > Any idea why this is and what I can do about it? > If more info is needed, please be simple and clear about exactly what > you want me to get from where and I will gladly supply it. > > sincere thanks for all the help I've gotten in here already! > -- > Dennis C. I bet the drive/partition you are speaking about has a fat32/ntfs filesystem on it. On such systems you can't chmod/chown. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653
