[PLUG] Cannot change perms on fat32 partition?

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

>When using 'umask' the argument is a 3 digit Octal string.  This value is
>then subtracted from 666 for files and 777 for directories.  The default
>umask is 022 giving you the permissions you originally saw (drwxr-xr-x). 
>This is why 'umask=777' gave you 'd---------'.  Change it to 'umask=000'
>and that should give you what you want.

Right, that was it!  'umask=000' mounts my windows partition as world-
writable.  Thanks to everyone for your suggestions.

Greg

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