On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 01:23 +0200, Harm Geerts wrote: > On Sunday 27 August 2006 23:59, Joseph wrote: > > Harm Geerts is right (thanks) "umask=0077" does what I need with dos > > partition, when mounted, usb stick has a permission 700. > > What would be an alternative for ext2 file system, umask doesn't work. > > I might be wrong but I'm guessing you want different permissions on the > mountpoint. > > In that case you can simply `chmod 700 /mnt/your_stick` it with ext2 (while > mounted). > ext2 stores this and will use the same permissions the next mount. > This is true for all filesystems that support permissions (which all normal > linux filesystems do) > > umask is only intended to make up for the lack of file permissions on vfat.
Thanks for the explanation, I did that with "chown" on ext2 and it did work. It makes me wander if anybody experiment with other file systems (besides dos, ext2) on on memory sticks? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
