[luau] Changing Modes

[Wayne Bow]

Hey Ralph,



> what if I change my NTNF file back to fat32 using Partition Magic..
> think it'll work?
> 

Good question!  Anything you can't afford to lose on that partition? It 
may be that windows chokes on reboot if it is expecting to find NTFS 
and instead finds Fat32. It would be a great test (assuming you have 
time to 'play').
> Ralph
> 
> 
> From: "Wayne Bow" <admin at stfrancis-oahu.org>
> Reply-To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
> To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
> Subject: Re: [luau] Changing Modes
> Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 12:30:43 -1000
> 
> 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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Wayne Bow
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St Francis School                   (808) 988.4111 ext 107
"Quality education in a spirit of JOY"