On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 11:33:54AM +0100, Jason A. Corcoran. mentioned:
> I have 2 directories on a zip disk. they have the
> following permissions ..
>> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 16384 Jun 30
> 11:27 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 7
> 20:43 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Jun 30
> 11:27 KDE2
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Jun 8
> 10:51 X
>> I have tried to delete the two folders rm -R -f *
> I was told they are read only, So I have chmod 755
> * and 777 * and still no joy.
Are you logged in as root ? Those files are owned by root...
> What could I be doing wrong. One note I can only
> write to the zip disk if I am root.
Change the fstab to look like my floppy:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto,owner,user 0 0
That way, anyone can mount it, and when it's mounted, it'll be owned by
the person that mounted it.
Kate
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