On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:59:23AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > 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
The first of these shows you the permissions of the /mnt/d directory on the filesystem mounted on /. The second shows you the permissions of the / directory on the filesystem mounted on /mnt/d. Does that help? Very little ever pays attention to the permissions on the mount point itself (the first). Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
