Root isn't God

[Rus Foster]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Nicolò Nepote wrote:

> I have mounted a fat32 partition 7dev/hda2 on /mnt/data with the vfat option
> and added an entry in /etc/fstab with auto option. The folder /mnt/data was
> created with default umask and has 755 permissions. In order to have the
> possibility to write on that disk when I login as "nepote" (that is my usual
> identity and is part of the group "root") i logged in as root and:
>
> chmod 775 /mnt/data -R
>
> the command returns a list off "you don't have enough permissions (requested
> 775, was 755)"

Is the filesystem mounted at this point?

Rus
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