Once upon a time Joerg Johannes said... > Hi List > > Why does a mount change the file permissions of a directory? > Example: > > ls -l /mnt > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2003-01-20 18:29 d > mount /mnt/d > ls -l /mnt > dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 2003-01-24 09:22 d > > ????? > /etc/fstab says: > /dev/hda7 /mnt/d ntfs user,noauto,ro 0 0
When you mount the filesystem, the root directory of the filesystem overlays the mount directory. Before mount, you're seeing the permissions on the directory in the root filesystem. After mount, you're seeing the permissions on the root directory of the new filesystem. After you mount the directory, you can chmod /mnt and it will retain those permissions on future mounts. ...except I see you're using NTFS. I dont know if you can chmod a NTFS filesystem. Someone else will have to help there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]