From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>,
Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Q:How to replace 9load in the 9fat partition?
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:34:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a05092108341f3efe61@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b80b9ebce5a3063feefa49475b34fb83@proxima.alt.za>
> If it's not significantly bigger than before, just cp it. If its
> permission bits change, you need to use disk/format as shown in man
> prep, with all the pertinent provisos.
this isn't true. as forsyth said, all you have to do
is chmod +al it if the permission bits change.
if chmod fails, then you might need to do some
moving things around to make some contiguous
disk space.
russ
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-21 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-21 9:30 icQQ
2005-09-21 10:00 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-09-21 11:16 ` Lucio De Re
2005-09-21 15:34 ` Russ Cox [this message]
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