Re: [nottingham] Writable vfat mounts under kernel 2.4.3

From: Tom Allender (txa99c@cs.nott.ac.uk)
Date: Sat 21 Apr 2001 - 12:22:30 BST


Martin Garton wrote:

> This is a problem with the umask. When the partition is mounted the
> permissions are by default taken from the current umask. At boot, that
> will by 000 which will mean any permissions are allowed. When you remount,
> it will probably be 022, which will mask off write for group and
> world. (Try tying "umask <enter>" on a command line)
>
> AFAIK, you can change it to always use 022 by adding umask=022 as an
> option in /etc/fstab.

That's the one. Thank you for that, it is now as it should be.
Tom.
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