[luau] Changing Modes

[Wayne Bow]

Hey All,
> It worked for the root directory...

Am I wrong in thinking  that changing / to 777 permissions is a 
"dangerous thing"?
>
 however, when I tried the directory
> windows I received the following messages:
> 
> [mirandar at shf102135 /]$ ll -d mnt
> drwxrwxrwt    8 root     root         4096 Apr 16 07:39 mnt/
> 
> [mirandar at shf102135 /]$ cd mnt
> [mirandar at shf102135 mnt]$ ls
> cdrom/  disk/  floppy/  smb/  windows/  zip/
> [mirandar at shf102135 mnt]$ chmod 1777 windows
> chmod: changing permissions of `windows': Read-only file system

If your Windows partition is NTFS I believe that Linux can only use it 
as read-only so you can't change the permissions to 
read/write/xecute.  Yes?

Wayne Bow
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