FAT32 partition permission question

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 03:09:12PM -0400, Steve wrote:
> I added the following line to my fstab, which automounts my fat32
> partition, however *some* folders are listed as read-only when I
> browse as a regular user (permission "555"). Most of the other folders
> and files are read-write ("777"):
> 
> /dev/hda5		/mnt/fat32		vfat	users,rw,umask=0 0 0
> 
> Is there something I did wrong with the fstab entry, or is there some
> idiosyncratic thing with some of my folders in the fat32 partition?

Maybe files that are readonly on dos default to readonly on linux
nomatter what the umask is.  I personally much prefer fmask/dmask over
umask since that way you can keep the execute bit on dirs but off the
files.

Lennart Sorensen
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