chmod again

John Williams jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au
Tue Apr 15 05:53:00 GMT 2003


Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote:
> John Williams wrote:
> 
>> I'm doing this on a fat32 partition...

> OK, that's the problem then.  I guess you didn't read the FAQ entry:
> 
> Why doesn't chmod work?
> <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC45>
> 
> chmod does nothing on FAT drives unless you're running some version
> of NT and you're willing to incur the overhead of a large file in
> your root (enabled by setting 'ntea' in your CYGWIN environment variable).

I'm running XP, and would be happy to suffer whatever it takes to get 
this to work.  The alternative is to hack genromfs, which I don't want 
to do because it makes yet another branch in the toolchain sources.

John



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