chmod not working on firewire drive

[William Goedicke]

Dear Y'all - 

I'm having a disquieting experience in which I can't remove write
permission (i.e. "bash$ chmod a-x filespec") on my firewire drive.

I've sudoed to no avail.

Any ideas?

 - Billy


 William Goedicke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Cell 617-510-7244Office 781-736-4657   
 AIM goedsole


  Lest we forget:

Good software development involves analyzing and automating the input
and output of the required business functionality.

- William Goedicke

Re: chmod not working on firewire drive

[Sherm Pendley]

On Apr 24, 2005, at 6:20 PM, William Goedicke wrote:
I'm having a disquieting experience in which I can't remove write
permission (i.e. "bash$ chmod a-x filespec") on my firewire drive.
I've sudoed to no avail.
Any ideas?
Use "Disk Utility" to have a look at the volume(s) on the drive. If  
it's a platform-agnostic drive that's advertised as compatible with  
both Windows and Mac, it's likely to have a FAT32 volume on it.

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Re: chmod not working on firewire drive

[Trey Harris]

I've had the same thing happen, though I don't really understand what's
going on terribly well.  If "Ignore ownership on this volume" is clicked
in the Finder's Get Info window for the volume, and it got mounted at boot
time (i.e., by root), or by another user, it seems like this can happen.

Try unchecking the box, ejecting and remounting.

Trey

In a message dated Sun, 24 Apr 2005, William Goedicke writes:

> Dear Y'all -
>
> I'm having a disquieting experience in which I can't remove write
> permission (i.e. "bash$ chmod a-x filespec") on my firewire drive.
>
> I've sudoed to no avail.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>  - Billy
>
> 
>  William Goedicke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  Cell 617-510-7244Office 781-736-4657
>  AIM goedsole
> 
>
>   Lest we forget:
>
> Good software development involves analyzing and automating the input
> and output of the required business functionality.
>
>   - William Goedicke
>

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Re: chmod not working on firewire drive

[Kevin Michael Vail]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Goedicke) wrote:

> Dear Y'all - 
> 
> I'm having a disquieting experience in which I can't remove write
> permission (i.e. "bash$ chmod a-x filespec") on my firewire drive.
> 
> I've sudoed to no avail.

Well, removing write permission is a-w...
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