Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 01:35:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 01:35:47 -0500 Received: from [212.3.242.3] ([212.3.242.3]:41454 "HELO mail.vt4.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 01:35:47 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: DevilKin To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.5.46] Problems with vfat mount umask on directories Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 07:42:23 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200211070728.47941.devilkin-lkml@blindguardian.org> In-Reply-To: <200211070728.47941.devilkin-lkml@blindguardian.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200211070742.23188.devilkin-lkml@blindguardian.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1335 Lines: 31 On Thursday 07 November 2002 07:28, DevilKin wrote: > 'llo list. > > This morning I discovered I no longer could write on my vfat data partition > as a normal user. The following line is present in /etc/fstab (and has > worked before with atleast 2.5.40 and each and every 2.4 kernel I used) > And, as usual, if one would first READ the docs and then ask help, one would get a lot farther. Sorry bout this... :oP Just read the Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt file, it says something about dmask (not present currently in the mount manpage) which made everything work again. Another case of RTFM... DK -- Let's just say that where a change was required, I adjusted. In every relationship that exists, people have to seek a way to survive. If you really care about the person, you do what's necessary, or that's the end. For the first time, I found that I really could change, and the qualities I most admired in myself I gave up. I stopped being loud and bossy ... Oh, all right. I was still loud and bossy, but only behind his back." -- Kate Hepburn, on Tracy and Hepburn - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/