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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!handbag.tecc.co.uk!parody.tecc.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: chmod'ing msdos fs and mount problems Date: 10 Dec 1995 00:41:33 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD box Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4adabt$2j1@parody.tecc.co.uk> References: <4acqam$2m8@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost In article <4acqam$2m8@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca>, The YossMan <yossman@osiris.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote: >I am mounting two msdos filesystems, /dos and /dos2, at bootup. I want >to change the permissions so that no one but root will be able to even >look at the filessystems. According to the mount_msdos man page, the -m flag to mount specifies the maximum file system permissions when mounting a DOS fs and the -u and -g flags specify the ownership. For example, mount -t msdos -m 700 -u 0 -g 0 /dev/wd0s1 /dos >which leads me to me second question. When i load /dos2, which is an IDE >1.03GIG drive (second physical drive), I get "mountmsdosfs(): root >directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in length". I don't >really know what this means or what to expect when using the filesystem, >so I have disabled loading it for now. Any ideas? Sorry, don't know. James -- Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'