chmod not working on firewire drive

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William Goedicke - 24 Apr 2005 23:20 GMT

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

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Trey Harris - 25 Apr 2005 01:12 GMT

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:

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Kevin Michael Vail - 25 Apr 2005 01:16 GMT

> 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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Sherm Pendley - 25 Apr 2005 05:42 GMT

> 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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