On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:59:23AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> Why does a mount change the file permissions of a directory?
I am not an expert. There will probably better and more complete
answers but this is how I understand it:
> Example:
>
> ls -l /mnt
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2003-01-20 18:29 d
This shows the permission of /mnt/d on your present filesystem
> mount /mnt/d
mounting a different filesystem onto /mnt/d - hiding the real content
of /mnt/d.
> ls -l /mnt
> dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 2003-01-24 09:22 d
This shows the permissions of the new filesystem.
>
> ?????
> /etc/fstab says:
> /dev/hda7 /mnt/d ntfs user,noauto,ro 0 0
The present kernels does not have write-access to NTFS filesystems
yet. I suspect it will be coming soon.
Regards.
Johann
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