[Nottingham] chmod of a /mnt/dir...

[Martin]

Martin Garton wrote:
> 
>>How should I change the /mnt/* permissions?
[...]
> 
> For fat, yes. fat partitions do not have the same permissions system as 
> linux and other unices, so the usual way is to specify at mount time what 
> the whole partition should be.  man mount and look for umask.  As well as 
> passing the umask parameter to mount, you can specify it in your fstab as 
> an option if (for example) you are mounting a vfat partition at boot 
> time.
> 
> Some of the wine folks have put more detailed info here:
> 
> http://crossover.codeweavers.com/docs/office/html/wine-user/vfat.html


Thanks. That gives the missing link!

Regards,
Martin

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