Re: [expert] Read/Write permissions on a VFAT partition

[duane voth]

 >> "Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA" wrote:
 >>> I have a vfat partition (win98) mounted but cannot seem to get permissions
 >>> to write to it. Would someone please give me a hint how to do this?

 > From: Ron Stodden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 >> The user that did the mount is the only one with write access.


Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote:

> Not so if you set umask to 0

Woah, hold on, do you mean to say that umask now also controls
the permissions of mounted filesystems?!  (and I *presume* that
umask must be set *prior* to running mount)

Why arn't world read/write permissions command line options for mount??
(where they belong!)

duane