On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Bart Oldeman wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, e white wrote:
> 
> > for a dos partition, the fstab entry should go
> > something like:
> > 
> > /dev/hda1 /dos  vfat  defaults,umask=022  0  1
> > 
> > /dos has a mode of 640.  the umask is and'ed with the
> 
> ~umask (bit-wise "not" of umask) is and'ed, not umask itself. So with
> umask=022 you turn off write permissions for group and user.

correction : i meant group and world of course.

Bart

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