On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:37:39PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote:
> (oh, and you'd probably be better off mounting it as a vfat volume
> instead of msdos.  Long file names are good :-)
> 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.  I'm hopeless at octal. :-)

umask=002 I guess, if you want the group to write.

The umask command accepts symbolic values these days,
umask 002 would be umask u=rxw,g=rx,o=rx
except hmm it's not really a mask any more.
That's unconfusing!


Matt

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