Re: 'umask' and mounting of vfat filesystem.

From: Pigeon (jah.pigeon_at_ukonline.co.uk)
Date: 08/17/04

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    On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 11:43:09PM -0700, Daniel M. wrote:
    > Hello everybody,
    >
    > According to the man page for 'mount', 'umask=value' is used as follows:
    >
    >
    > "umask=value
    > Set the umask (the bitmask of the permissions that are not
    > present). The default is the umask of the current process. The
    > value is given in octal."
    >
    > But somehow I don't succeed in getting that behavior. For example,
    > if I set 'umask=0000', I am supposed to get '-rwxrwxrwx' permissions.
    > But some files/directories have '-r-xr-xr-x' permissions (for example,
    > in the root directory of vfat's filesystem those files are: msdos.sys,
    > ntdetect.com, ntldr, io.sys, 'Program Files'. There are other (non-system)
    > files, deeper in the directory structure, which also get those incorrect
    > permissions).

    VFAT doesn't support unix-style file permissions. What you're seeing
    is a unix-style system trying to do the best it can on a crappy
    filesystem. It won't get any better than what you've got. 

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