On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:57:56 +1100 Michael Lake wrote:

> Peter Hardy wrote:
> >You probably at least need the rw option, as there's uid, gid and
> >umask options to set the permissions.
> >(oh, and you'd probably be better off mounting it as a vfat volume
> >instead of msdos.  Long file names are good :-)
> >
> Its for exchanging files with a Mac OSX partitions on the Ti Book.

I won't pretend I have any idea about how OSX does things. :-)

> >Try changing your fstab to (for eg):
> >/dev/hda12   /mnt/dos        vfat    defaults,rw,uid=root,gid=users,umask=022
> >The umask may need tuning.
> >
> OK have fstab now set and mount now shows...
> /dev/hda12 on /mnt/dos type msdos (rw,uid=0,gid=100,umask=022)
> 
> still cant set permissions though as you can see here...
> 
> casteret:/mnt# mountcasteret:/mnt# chmod ug+w dos/
> casteret:/mnt# ls -l
> drwxr-xr-x    4 root     users       16384 Jan  1  1970   dos
> 
> I was expecting a w to show after I changed permissions. I am root
> after all :-)

Urk.  My umask was wrong, sorry.  It should be 002.  Permissions for the
mount point, as well as everything under it, are controlled by that
umask. You shouldn't (and can't) chmod.

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Pete
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