On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 20:21, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Robert Fisher wrote: > >On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 18:36, Steve Holdoway wrote: > >>Try using the word 'defaults' as your option list. That's all you need. > >>If mount /mnt/share works as a command line on its own, then you're > >> sorted. > >> > >>Steve > > > >/dev/sda4 /mnt/share ext3 defaults,umask=000 0 0 > > > >Does not work either. > > > >Keep trying - I do appreciate everybody's efforts to help me. > > and the difference between defaults,umask=000 and defaults is...? > > Try r'ing tfm. man mount will show you that umask is *NOT* valid for > ext3 filesystems. Actually it doesn't! I have just pored over the man page line by line & it says that umask is not valid in the context of ext3, merely by not mentioning it at all in the ext3 options paragraph. That fact is something which is part of the 'Unix Lore' and thus imho quite reasonable for a relative newby to miss.
I have sshed in and fixed it for Rob. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
