On 1/30/06, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My problem, though, is with permissions. If I'm not logged in as root > I can't write on /home which kind of defeats the purpose of reserving > /home for user directories. > > I unmounted /home again and tried to change the permissions on it: > #chmod g+w /home > but it says "chmod: /home: is a directory". I don't understand this > error, if I do: > #mkdir /p > #chmod g+w /p > there is no problem.
msdos doesn't support permissions, so you can't do this. error message is perhaps inappropriate, though. i think what you want is to just mount with -m 0777 or -m 0666 -x.
