Re: chmod on vfat

["Doug" <dougm patriot net>]

thanks Leonard, setting the umask in fstab worked like a charm :)

Doug

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leonard den Ottolander" <leonardjo hetnet nl>
To: <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: chmod on vfat


> 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.
>
>
>
>
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