Arthur S. Alexion on Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:51:18 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] fstab for mounting windows partitions


On Wednesday 26 June 2002 12:13 pm, Jesse Schultz wrote:
> I use:
> /dev/hda1
>         /dos                    vfat    umask=000    0 0
>
> The umask is a vfat specific option.  Just do the opposite of the
> desired mode.  In this case, a living dangerously 777

Are you saying that umask=000 is like doing a chmod 777?

Not any more dangerous than accessing the partition from windows.  In 
any event, the files on the partitions are mostly documents and data 
files. not settings for the most part.

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