bug#18937: chmod ???? bug?

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/03/2014 10:26 AM, Plato wrote:
chmod -R 644/media/plato/mountedpartition/

The behavior you observe is what I'd expect once the permissions on 
directories are messed up. To fix it, try "chmod -R 
+X/media/plato/mountedpartition/" as root.