On 2/1/06, Alexander Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Guenther wrote: > > I dual boot OpenBSD with Windows and have a third partition for data > > which is mounted on /home. The data partition is FAT32 since that's > > the only type that both OSes support well. > > I am not rally happy to use FAT partitions from OBSD. There has been > recently fixed issues, and I seem to stumble over corruptions from time > to time, and although I cannot be sure that FAT is to blame, I have no > issues when using non-FAT partitions.
Hmm, I know it's not the greatest set up but it lets both OSes live reasonably harmoniously. > > 1) how can I set the permissions on /home|why can't I set them? > > You cannot. It is not supported by the file system. > From my /etc/fstab: > /dev/wd0p /data msdos rw,-l,-m=777,nodev,nosuid,noauto 0 0 > > You can add switches like "-m" above. > Ah! Thank you very much. That's exactly what I was looking for. That little detail isn't explicitly documented anywhere I could see. Also, I'm an idiot. I was trying to use chmod while /home was mounted. The following 'solved' my problem: #umount /home #chmod g+w /home #mount -t msdos -g=users /dev/wd0h /home Now since I added all my user accounts to the users group they can all write to /home. Hooray! Thank you everyone for your help. -Kousu
