[X-Unix] Re: Repair permissions on volume with no OS?

[Kirk McElhearn]

On 4/6/05 12:56 AM, "Albert Lunde" <atlunde at panix.com> wrote:

>> If you're not worried about the permissions being strict, a possible
>> solution would be to try the following command, substituting the
>> correct volume for what I have here:
>> 
>> # sudo chmod -R 0777 /Volumes/all-my-files
>> 
>> This will set rwxrwxrwx (Read, Write, and Execute permissions on ALL
>> files of that volume, recusively).
> 
> That's a pretty big sledgehammer.  I'd be really, really, careful
> about trying that.

Yeah, and there's a much easier way to do it, that you can undo: just turn
off permissions on the volume. You can always turn them on again later.
Though I'd agree with the danger inherent in doing that on a startup volume.
 

Kirk
 
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