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Re: chmod not working on firewire drive: msg#00097

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Subject: Re: chmod not working on firewire drive

On Apr 24, 2005, at 6:20 PM, William Goedicke wrote:

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.

sherm--

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