On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:39:38 -0400 Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > aabb wrote: > >Here's a strange one... > > > >I use 2 partitions for Windows 98, hda1 and hda5. I set both up as > >type "c" (fat32 LBA) during my gentoo installation, using fdisk. The > >entries in /etc/fstab are almost identical: > > > >/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,noexec 0 0 > >/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,noexec 0 0
What's the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda"?
BTW, I use "noauto,noexec,user,fmask=0133" as options in fstab for vfat
partitions.
> Any of the mask entries correspond to octal permission; therefore,
> they need to be three-digit numbers. I recommend 022 (rwxr-xr-x),
> but I assume you want 000 (rwxrwxrwx). Don't forget to set uid and
> gid or else only root will have access to the files!
I set file mask to fmask=0133 on vfat partitions, because files on
windows partitions don't need the executable bit. It only annoys me when
Midnight Commander tries to execute them after I press ENTER.
Cheers,
Renat
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