On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 11:43:09PM -0700, Daniel M. wrote: > Hello everybody, > > According to the man page for 'mount', 'umask=value' is used as follows: > > > "umask=value > Set the umask (the bitmask of the permissions that are not > present). The default is the umask of the current process. The > value is given in octal." > > But somehow I don't succeed in getting that behavior. For example, > if I set 'umask=0000', I am supposed to get '-rwxrwxrwx' permissions. > But some files/directories have '-r-xr-xr-x' permissions (for example, > in the root directory of vfat's filesystem those files are: msdos.sys, > ntdetect.com, ntldr, io.sys, 'Program Files'. There are other (non-system) > files, deeper in the directory structure, which also get those incorrect > permissions).
VFAT doesn't support unix-style file permissions. What you're seeing is a unix-style system trying to do the best it can on a crappy filesystem. It won't get any better than what you've got. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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