Re: permission on dos filesystem

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have been using my dos partition as a store for data files I don't use
> very often. Creating the files as a normal user, these files and the
> directories belonged to my username. Today I just found out that the
> ownerships had changed to root. I tried changing them back as root 
> using chown and chgrp only to find out i could not do that.
> It kept saying Permission denied. When i tried changing the group from
> root to adm it said that I as root was not member of the group.
> What is going on ???
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
The MSDOS file system has no "place" to put the owner/group identification
information. As a result, all files are owned/grouped by root/root.

Hope this helps,

Dwarf
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