[PLUG] Cannot change perms on fat32 partition?

["Gregson Helledy" <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

Last week I posted about being unable to change perms on my fat32
partition, mounted as /windows by root.
Perms were originally displayed as:
drwxr-xr-x

Following suggestions here, I added the following to the line in
fstab:
umask=777

Following a umount and mount, I then got perms like this:
d---------

>From the documentation, I understood that it was supposed to
be the same as with chmod.  I did:
mkdir test
chmod 777 test

and it produced:
drwxrwxrwx
which is what I want, except on the /windows directory.

What did I do wrong this time?

Greg


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