[PLUG] Partition mounting (fstab)

[David Fleck]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Mel Andres wrote:
> The umask field is where the permissions are set, and are the inverse of  the 
> numerical chmod settings. In my case, root, and my group have all permissions 
> (0's), others have read only (the 2). The umask settings can not be 
> over-ridden by chmod. In any case, ntfs will disallow writes.


Apologies for getting all pedantic, but I think the outcome of that umask 
will be:

  777 (default)
  002 (umask)
  ---
  775 (final permissions)

so, read & execute, not just read-only.


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David Fleck
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