setting directory permissions

Fri Oct 3 22:48:48 UTC 2003

 Once again, what should be simple is driving me nuts !
    background; pentiumIII, 500mhz, 512ram. Knoppix 3.2 based testing/ 
unstable debian.

after installing Knopix to the HD, I found I was unable to access 
several existing partitions as anything but root.
I figured it was an fstab thing but have tried all sorts of fstab 
permutations without success.
I have noticed that the permissions of the troubled /mnt/hd* directories 
are not set for user or group execute.
chmod 777 /mnt/hda1/ does nothing
nor does chmod a+x /mnt/hda1/
what am I doing wrong ? Why can I not change the attributes for these 
directories ?

help appreciated,
thanks,
Davamundo

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