changing permissions

[Markku Kolkka]

Shelagh kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika torstai, 19. elokuuta 
2004 00:56):
> I am finally getting around to fixing up a rew niggling
> irritations. Or trying to. I haven't been able to write to my
> windows partition and have tried changing the ownership of it
> from root to me.

Windows partitions don't support Linux file protection and 
ownership. The "owner" of the files and mode for all files and 
directories is set when the partition is mounted by options 
given to the mount command. See the documentation for "umask" 
and "uid" options.

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 Markku Kolkka
 markku.kolkka at iki.fi