Re: chmod on vfat

["Leonard den Ottolander" <leonardjo hetnet nl>]

Hi Doug,

> i have 3 partitions that are formatted fat32 (w2k), I have fstab set to =
> auto mount with defaults. the permissions by default are 755, when i try = to
> chmod to 775 or 777 it doesn't change, it stays at 755. How can i = change them
> so that when i'm logged in as a user i can write to these = drives? or am I
> stuck with with just using root to write to these = drives?

 Try mounting them using
umask=000
in the options section. If you don't like the files being shown as executables 
use "showexec" or "noexec". showexec seems to work like "noexec", except for 
files with a DOS executable extension. Fe, the shell script foo will not run, 
but if you copy foo to foo.exe the latter will be executable. Also see man 
mount.

Bye,
Leonard.