floppy permissions

[JC Portlock <ke6ume@snowcrest.net>]

Hello all.

New subscriber to the list and have the following situation.

Running a potato box.

I wanted to save a document created in StarOffice to /mnt/floppy/ but it told 
me I didn't have the right perms.  As user, I am already added to the group 
'floppy'.  So I checked the perms and found I didn't have write privs.  Went 
to chmod to correct the situation and had these results:

YOU ARE ROOT!! on jchammin
/mnt pts/4> chmod 777 floppy
YOU ARE ROOT!! on jchammin
/mnt pts/4> ls -al
total 17
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         1024 Jan 15 21:45 ./
drwxr-xr-x   20 root     root         1024 Jan 20 11:01 ../
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         7168 Dec 31  1969 floppy/
drwxrwxrwx   60 root     root         8192 Dec 31  1969 windoz/

Even tried the symbols:

YOU ARE ROOT!! on jchammin
/mnt pts/4> chmod a+rwx floppy
YOU ARE ROOT!! on jchammin
/mnt pts/4> ls -al
total 17
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         1024 Jan 15 21:45 ./
drwxr-xr-x   20 root     root         1024 Jan 20 11:01 ../
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         7168 Dec 31  1969 floppy/
drwxrwxrwx   60 root     root         8192 Dec 31  1969 windoz/

And even:

YOU ARE ROOT!! on jchammin
/mnt pts/4> chmod --reference=windoz floppy
YOU ARE ROOT!! on jchammin
/mnt pts/4> ls -al
total 17
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         1024 Jan 15 21:45 ./
drwxr-xr-x   20 root     root         1024 Jan 20 11:01 ../
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         7168 Dec 31  1969 floppy/
drwxrwxrwx   60 root     root         8192 Dec 31  1969 windoz/

I did this after reading the man for chmod.  What am I missing?
-- 
73,

JC Portlock KE6UME
ke6ume@arrl.net
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