JB> so far you've proven that you can change the attributes of a
JB> ordinary directory

JB> mount something dos, or windows-like in there. (even a floppy,
JB> or image-file will do) and look at the ownwership and
JB> permissions on the files. DTW: for that last command "ls -ld
JB> windows" would suffice. but what I (and bob) want to do is
JB> change the permissions on the contents of the mounted volume.

 Yes! They are not necessarily the same thing. In fact, I could not
find a way to change the permissions of the dos files, so I changed
the owner to bob rather than root. I think it's because DOS only has
archive, read-only, and system as the operating archive bits. I
suspect that Linux allocates the read-only bit to "owner" and leaves
"group" out altogether, making group *always* read-only. Executable
becomes the DOS "system" bit.

Regards,
Bob

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